Job 5 / 42
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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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Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.
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I have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
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His children are far from safety;
they are crushed in the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.
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The hungry eat his harvest,
and he takes it even out of thorns,
and the thirsty pantAquila, Symmachus, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew could be read as and the snare pants after hisHebrew their wealth.
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For affliction does not come from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
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but man is born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.
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"As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause,
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who does great things and unsearchable,
marvelous things without number:
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he gives rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;
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he sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
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He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
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He catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime
and grope at noonday as in the night.
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But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth
and from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth.
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"Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
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For he wounds, but he binds up;
he shatters, but his hands heal.
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He will deliver you from six troubles;
in seven no evil shall touch you.
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In famine he will redeem you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword.
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You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue,
and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
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At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
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For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,
and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
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You shall know that your tent is at peace,
and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
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You shall know also that your offspring shall be many,
and your descendants as the grass of the earth.
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You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,
like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
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Behold, this we have searched out; it is true.
Hear, and know it for your good."