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Job - ch 5 v 1 - 20
- "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
- For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
- I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
- whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
- For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
- but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
- who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
- who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
- so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
- He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
- He takes the wise in their own craftiness; 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 saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
- So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
- "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
- For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.
- He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
- In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
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