Job 5:1-13 ▼

1 Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?

2 Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.

3 I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,

4 His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, & none shall deliuer them.

5 The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

6 For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

7 But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.

8 But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:

9 Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.

10 He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,

11 And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.

12 He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.

13 He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.