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Job - ch 5 v 1 - 20
- Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?
- For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
- I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
- Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
- Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
- For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
- For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
- Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
- Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.
- Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
- To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high `in' safety.
- Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
- Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
- By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.
- And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,
- And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
- Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
- For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.
- In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.
- In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.
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