Job 5:1-13 ▼

1 Call now, if there is answering thee; and to whom from the holy ones wilt thou turn?

2 For to the foolish, and anger will slay, and the simple will jealousy kill.

3 I saw the foolish one taking root, and suddenly I shall curse his habitation.

4 His sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and none delivering.

5 Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance.

6 For toil will not come forth from the dust, and labor will not spring up from the earth;

7 For man shall be born to labor as the sons of the flame will lift up to fly.

8 But I will seek to God, and to God set my cause:

9 He did great things, and no searching; and wonders even no number:

10 He gave rain upon the face of the earth, and sent waters upon the out places:

11 To raise up the humbled to height; and those mourning were exalted to salvation.

12 Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking.

13 He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.