30 lines
2.3 KiB
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30 lines
2.3 KiB
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Job.
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Chapter 5.
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“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
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I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
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whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
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For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
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but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
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who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
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who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
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so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
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He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
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He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
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They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
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But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
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“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
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For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
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He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
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In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
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You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
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You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
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For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
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You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
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You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.
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You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
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Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”
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