{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/job005.htm","path":"bib/kjv/job005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/job005.htm","text":"1\u00a0Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?\n \n2\u00a0For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.\n \n3\u00a0I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.\n \n4\u00a0His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.\n \n5\u00a0Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.\n \n6\u00a0Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;\n \n7\u00a0Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.\n \n8\u00a0I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:\n \n9\u00a0Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:\n \n10\u00a0Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:\n \n11\u00a0To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.\n \n12\u00a0He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.\n \n13\u00a0He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.\n \n14\u00a0They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.\n \n15\u00a0But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.\n \n16\u00a0So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.\n \n17\u00a0Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:\n \n18\u00a0For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.\n \n19\u00a0He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.\n \n20\u00a0In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.\n \n21\u00a0Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.\n \n22\u00a0At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.\n \n23\u00a0For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.\n \n24\u00a0And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.\n \n25\u00a0Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.\n \n26\u00a0Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.\n \n27\u00a0Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.","title":"King James Version: Job: Job Chapter 5","type":"page"}