Job 5:1-13 ▼

1 Call now! Will anyone respond to you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2 Surely impatience kills the fool and indignation slays the simpleton.

3 I have seen a fool spreading his roots, but I cursed his household suddenly:

4 May his children be far from safety; may they be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.

5 What they have reaped may the hungry eat up, or God take away by blight, or the thirsty swallow their substance.

6 For not from dust does mischief come, nor from the soil does trouble sprout.

7 Human beings beget mischief as sparks fly upward.

8 In your place, I would appeal to God, and to God I would state my plea.

9 He does things great and unsearchable, things marvelous and innumerable.

10 He gives rain upon the earth and sends water upon the fields;

11 He sets up the lowly on high, and those who mourn are raised to safety.

12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning, so that their hands achieve no success;

13 He catches the wise in their own ruses, and the designs of the crafty are routed.