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The Book of Job, Chapter 5
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Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of
the saints wilt thou turn?
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For wrath killeth the foolish man, and
envy slayeth the silly one.
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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, and they are crushed in the
gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
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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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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth
trouble spring out of the ground;
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Yet man is born unto trouble, as
the sparks fly upward.
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I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without
number:
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Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon
the fields:
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To set up on high those that be low; that those which
mourn may be exalted to safety.
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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands
cannot perform their enterprise.
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of
the froward is carried headlong.
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They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday
as in the night.
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But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from
the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise
not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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For he maketh sore, and
bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
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He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall
no evil touch thee.
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In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the
power of the sword.
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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt
thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
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At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be
afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the
beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and
thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine
offspring as the grass of the earth.
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Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
corn cometh in in his season.
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Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it
for thy good.
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