Job 5:1-10 ▼

1 |Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2 For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

3 I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.

4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

5 The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

6 For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

7 but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

8 |But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

9 He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;

10 he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;