Job 5

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¹“Cry for help, but will anyone answer you? Which of the angels will help you? ✦ ²Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple. ✦ ³I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment, but then comes sudden disaster. ✦ ⁴Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them. ✦ ⁵The hungry devour their harvest, even when it is guarded by brambles. The thirsty pant after their wealth. ✦ ⁶But evil does not spring from the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the earth. ✦ ⁷People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire. ✦ ⁸“If I were you, I would go to God and present my case to him. ✦ ⁹He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles. ✦ ¹⁰He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields. ✦ ¹¹He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer. ✦ ¹²He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed. ✦ ¹³He traps the wise in their own cleverness so their cunning schemes are thwarted. ✦ ¹⁴They find it is dark in the daytime, and they grope at noon as if it were night. ✦ ¹⁵He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong, and rescues them from the clutches of the powerful. ✦ ¹⁶And so at last the poor have hope, and the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut. ✦ ¹⁷“But consider the joy of those corrected by God! Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty when you sin. ✦ ¹⁸For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal. ✦ ¹⁹From six disasters he will rescue you; even in the seventh, he will keep you from evil. ✦ ²⁰He will save you from death in time of famine, from the power of the sword in time of war. ✦ ²¹You will be safe from slander and have no fear when destruction comes. ✦ ²²You will laugh at destruction and famine; wild animals will not terrify you. ✦ ²³You will be at peace with the stones of the field, and its wild animals will be at peace with you. ✦ ²⁴You will know that your home is safe. When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing. ✦ ²⁵You will have many children; your descendants will be as plentiful as grass! ✦ ²⁶You will go to the grave at a ripe old age, like a sheaf of grain harvested at the proper time! ✦ ²⁷“We have studied life and found all this to be true. Listen to my counsel, and apply it to yourself.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 91 ·7 Ps 107 ·6 Job 18 ·6 Deut 28 ·5 Job 15 ·4 Ps 37 ·4 Job 8 ·4 Ps 72 ·4

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

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