Job 5

¹“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

²For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.†⇄ (2 connections)

³I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

⁴His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

⁵whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

⁶For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;⇄ (1 connection)

⁷but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.†⇄ (12 connections)

⁸“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,† (1 connection)

⁹who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;† (1 connection)

¹⁰who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

¹¹so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

¹²He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.† (1 connection)

¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.†⇄ (13 connections)

¹⁴They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

¹⁵But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

¹⁷“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.† (1 connection)

¹⁸For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.†⇄ (11 connections)

¹⁹He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.† (1 connection)

²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

²¹You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.†⇄ (8 connections)

²²You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

²³For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.†⇄ (6 connections)

²⁴You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

²⁵You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.†⇄ (2 connections)

²⁶You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.† (1 connection)

²⁷Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”