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Job 5:6

For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

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Job 5 · Read in context

5:1

“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

5:2

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

5:4

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

5:5

whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

5:6

For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

5:7

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

5:8

“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

5:9

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

5:10

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

5:11

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

5:12

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

5:14

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

5:15

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

5:16

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

5:17

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

5:18

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

5:19

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

5:20

In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

5:21

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

5:22

You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

5:23

For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.

5:24

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

5:25

You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.

5:26

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

5:27

Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

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Job 5:6 · LUMINVIA