> [[job-04|← Previous]] | [[job-00|TOC]] | [[job-06|Next →]] --- # Job, Chapter 5 ## Chapter 5 1 Call now! Will anyone respond to you? ^job-05-1 To which of the holy ones will you turn? 2 Surely impatience kills the fool ^job-05-2 and indignation slays the simpleton. 3 I have seen a fool spreading his roots, ^job-05-3 but I cursed his household suddenly: 4 May his children be far from safety; ^job-05-4 may they be crushed at the gate without a rescuer. 5 What they have reaped may the hungry eat up, ^job-05-5 or God take away by blight, or the thirsty swallow their substance. 6 For not from dust does mischief come, ^job-05-6 nor from the soil does trouble sprout. 7 Human beings beget mischief ^job-05-7 as sparks fly upward. 8 In your place, I would appeal to God, ^job-05-8 and to God I would state my plea. 9 He does things great and unsearchable, ^job-05-9 things marvelous and innumerable. 10 He gives rain upon the earth ^job-05-10 and sends water upon the fields; 11 He sets up the lowly on high, ^job-05-11 and those who mourn are raised to safety. 12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning, ^job-05-12 so that their hands achieve no success; 13 He catches the wise in their own ruses, ^job-05-13 and the designs of the crafty are routed. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, ^job-05-14 at noonday they grope as though it were night. 15 But he saves the poor from the sword of their mouth, ^job-05-15 from the hand of the mighty. 16 Thus the needy have hope, ^job-05-16 and iniquity closes its mouth. 17 Happy the one whom God reproves! ^job-05-17 The Almighty’s discipline do not reject. 18 For he wounds, but he binds up; ^job-05-18 he strikes, but his hands give healing. 19 Out of six troubles he will deliver you, ^job-05-19 and at the seventh no evil shall touch you. 20 In famine he will deliver you from death, ^job-05-20 and in war from the power of the sword; 21 From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, ^job-05-21 and you shall not fear approaching ruin. 22 At ruin and want you shall laugh; ^job-05-22 the beasts of the earth, do not fear. 23 With the stones of the field shall your covenant be, ^job-05-23 and the wild beasts shall be at peace with you. 24 And you shall know that your tent is secure; ^job-05-24 taking stock of your household, you shall miss nothing. 25 You shall know that your descendants are many, ^job-05-25 and your offspring like the grass of the earth. 26 You shall approach the grave in full vigor, ^job-05-26 as a shock of grain comes in at its season. 27 See, this we have searched out; so it is! ^job-05-27 This we have heard, and you should know. --- \* (5:1) Holy ones: members of the heavenly court; cf. [1:6] and note. They were viewed as heavenly intercessors. \* (5:4) At the gate: of the city, where justice was administered. \* (5:7) Sparks: in Hebrew, “sons of resheph,” which the ancient versions took as the name of a bird. Resheph was an underworld deity of plague, but the word also means “flames” in [Sg 8:6]. \* (5:9) Perhaps to be omitted here; it is a duplicate of [9:10]. \* (5:15) From the sword of their mouth: the Hebrew is obscure. \* (5:17) Almighty: standard translation of Heb. *Shaddai*. \* (5:19) Six…the seventh: proverbial expression for any large number; cf. [Prv 24:16]; ([[luke-17|Lk 17]]:4]. --- a. (5:3) [Ps 37:35] – [36]. b. (5:11) [1 Sm 2:7] – [8]; [Ps 113:7]; ([[luke-01|Lk 1]]:52]. c. (5:13) ([[1-corinthians-03|1 Cor 3]]:19]. d. (5:18) [Hos 6:1] – [2]. --- _New American Bible, revised edition_ (2010, 1991, 1986, 1970) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. > [[job-04|← Previous]] | [[job-00|TOC]] | [[job-06|Next →]]