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Job - ch 5 v 1 - 20
- Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
- For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
- I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
- Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
- For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
- But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
- But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
- Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
- Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
- So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
- He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
- They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
- But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
- So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
- Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
- For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.
- He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
- In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword.
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