# Job 5 
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1. “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? 
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2. Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple. 
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3. I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling. 
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4. His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them. 
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5. The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth. 
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6. For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground, 
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7. but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. 
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8. “As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause, 
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9. who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number: 
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10. he gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields; 
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11. he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety. 
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12. He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. 
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13. He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end. 
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14. They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night. 
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15. But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty. 
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16. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. 
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17. “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. 
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18. For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal. 
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19. He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no evil shall touch you. 
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20. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. 
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21. You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. 
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22. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth. 
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23. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. 
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24. You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing. 
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25. You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth. 
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26. You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season. 
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27. Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.” 

(ESV)