Job 5:1-10 ▼

1 |Cry out! Is there anyone to answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2 Certainly, anger kills a stubborn fool, and jealousy murders a gullible person.

3 I have seen a stubborn fool take root, but I quickly cursed his house.

4 His children are far from help. They are crushed at the city gate, and no one is there to rescue them.

5 What a stubborn fool gathers, hungry people eat. They take it even from among the thorns, and thirsty people pant after his wealth.

6 Certainly, sorrow doesn't come from the soil, and trouble doesn't sprout from the ground.

7 But a person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up [from a fire].

8 |But I would seek God's help and present my case to him.

9 He does great things that [we] cannot understand and miracles that [we] cannot count.

10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.