📖 Job 5
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“Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.
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I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.
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His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
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The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
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For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
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but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
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Blessings for the One Who Seeks God“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.
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He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;
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he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;
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he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.
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He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!
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He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
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So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.
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Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.
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“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
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For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.
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He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
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In time of famine he will redeem you from death, and in time of war from the power of the sword.
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You will be protected from malicious gossip, and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes.
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You will laugh at destruction and famine and need not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
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And you will know that your home will be secure, and when you inspect your domains, you will not be missing anything.
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You will also know that your children will be numerous, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
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You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.
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Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good.”