Job 5:1-18
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1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
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2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
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3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
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5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
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10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
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11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
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12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.