Job Capítulo 5

5 : 1 Call now, is there any who will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones will thou turn?

5 : 2 For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.

5 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

5 : 4 His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

5 : 5 whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.

5 : 6 For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,

5 : 7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

5 : 8 But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,

5 : 9 who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,

5 : 10 who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields,

5 : 11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.

5 : 12 He frustrates 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 cunning is carried headlong.

5 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

5 : 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

5 : 16 So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

5 : 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.

5 : 18 For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.

5 : 19 He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

5 : 20 In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

5 : 21 Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

5 : 22 At destruction and dearth thou shall laugh, nor shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

5 : 23 For thou shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

5 : 24 And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace, and thou shall visit thy fold, and shall miss nothing.

5 : 25 Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

5 : 26 Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

5 : 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.