Job 5 — The Holy Bible

Blessed Is He Whom God Has Reproved

“But call out, if there is anyone who will obey you,

Or if you shall see any of the holy angels.

For wrath destroys a foolish man,

And envy slays one who is deceived.

I have seen foolish people taking root,

But suddenly their mode of life consumed them.

May their children be far from salvation,

May they be derided at the gates of worse people,

And may there be no one to deliver them.

For the righteous will eat what they have gathered,

But they themselves will not be delivered from calamities.

Their strength will be exhausted.

For trouble does not come from the earth,

Nor does suffering spring from the mountains;

Yet man is born for trouble

As the young bird is born to fly to high places.

But surely as for me, I will beseech the Lord,

And call upon the Lord and Master of all,

Who does great, incomprehensible,

And marvelous things without number.

He causes rain on the earth

And sends water on all the places under the heaven.

He sets the lowly on high

And raises up the lost.

He frustrates the counsels of the crafty

So their hands cannot carry out their plans.

He catches the wise in their craftiness

And subverts the counsel of the cunning.

Let them encounter darkness in the daytime,

And may they grope at noontime as though it were night.

May they perish in war,

But may the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.

May the weak have hope,

And may the mouth of the unrighteous be stopped.

“But blessed is the man whom God corrects;

Therefore, do not reject the chastening of the Almighty.

For He causes a man to be in pain,

But He restores him again.

He smites, but His hands heal.

Six times He shall deliver you out of troubles,

And in seven no harm shall touch you.

In famine He shall deliver you from death,

And in war He shall free you from the power of the sword.

He shall hide you from the scourge of the tongue,

And you shall not be afraid of evils when they come.

You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless,

And you shall not be afraid of the wild animals of the earth.

For the wild animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

Then you shall know your house will be at peace with you;

And in your dwelling place there shall be nothing amiss.

You shall also know your seed shall be many,

And your children shall be like the grass of the earth.

You shall come to the grave as grain reaped in its season,

Or as a heap of threshed wheat harvested at the proper time.

Behold, we have searched this out;

This is what we have heard.

Know for yourself if you have done anything wrong.”