Job Chapter 5
The question" Why do innocent people suffer?" Is addressed in this biblical story.
American King James Version
5 : 1 Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?
5 : 2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
5 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
5 : 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 : 5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.
5 : 6 Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
5 : 7 Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
5 : 8 I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:
5 : 9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
5 : 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields:
5 : 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
5 : 12 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
5 : 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the fraudulent is carried headlong.
5 : 14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
5 : 15 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
5 : 16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
5 : 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
5 : 18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
5 : 19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
5 : 20 In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
5 : 21 You shall be hid from the whip of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
5 : 22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
5 : 23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
5 : 24 And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.
5 : 25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
5 : 26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season.
5 : 27 See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.