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Job - ch 5 v 1 - 20
- Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?
- For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
- I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.
- Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
- Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
- For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
- But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
- But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
- Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:
- Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:
- Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;
- Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
- He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.
- In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
- But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.
- So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.
- Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.
- For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.
- He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.
- When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
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