Job 5:1-10 ▼

1 “Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

5 whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

8 “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;