Job 5

Eliphaz’s Response Continues

¹“Call now, is there anyone answering you?

And to which of the holy ones will you turn?

²For vexation will slay the fool,

and jealousy will kill the simple.

³I have seen a fool taking root,

but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

⁴His children are far from deliverance,

and they are crushed in the gate,

and there is no deliverer—

⁵whose harvest the hungry eats,

and he takes it from behind the thorns;

and the thirsty pants after their wealth.

⁶Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust,[#Or “For”]

and trouble does not sprout from the earth.

⁷But a human being is born to trouble,

and they soar aloft like sparks.

⁸“But I myself will seek God,[#Emphatic personal pronoun]

and to God I would commit my cause.

⁹He is doing great and unsearchable things,[#Literally “there is no searching”]

marvelous things without number—

¹⁰the one who is giving rain on the surface of the earth[#Literally “faces of”]

and is sending water on the surface of the fields,

¹¹to set the lowly on high,

and those mourning are lifted to safety.

¹²He is frustrating the devices of the crafty,

and their hands do not achieve success.

¹³He is capturing the wise in their craftiness,

and the schemes of the wily are rushed.

¹⁴In the daytime they meet with darkness,

and they grope at noon as in the night.

¹⁵And he saves from the sword of their mouth,[#Or “Thus,” or “So”; #Literally “from”]

even the poor from the hand of the strong.

¹⁶So there is hope for the powerless,[#Or “And”; #Or “hope exists”]

and wickedness shuts its mouth.

¹⁷“Look, happy is the human being whom God reproves;

and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

¹⁸for he himself wounds, but he binds up;[#Emphatic personal pronoun; #Hebrew “and”]

he strikes, but his hands heal.

¹⁹From six troubles he will deliver you,[#Literally “In,” or “By”]

and in seven evil shall not touch you.

²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death,

and in war from the power of the sword.

²¹From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden,

and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.

²²At destruction and famine you shall laugh,[#Hebrew “at famine”]

and you shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.

²³For your covenant will be with the stones of the field,

and the wild animals of the field will be at peace with you.

²⁴And you shall know that your tent is safe,

and you will inspect your fold, and you shall not be missing anything.

²⁵And you shall know that your offspring are many,

and your descendants like the vegetation of the earth.

²⁶You shall come in maturity to the grave,

as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season.

²⁷“Look, we have searched this out—it is true;

hear it and know it yourself.”