The Book of Job

Chapters:

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verse #1

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

verse #2

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

verse #3

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

verse #4

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

verse #5

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

verse #6

For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

verse #7

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

verse #8

“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

verse #9

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

verse #10

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

verse #11

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

verse #12

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

verse #13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

verse #14

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

verse #15

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

verse #16

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

verse #17

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

verse #18

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

verse #19

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

verse #20

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

verse #21

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

verse #22

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

verse #23

For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.

verse #24

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

verse #25

You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.

verse #26

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

verse #27

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

Chapters:

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