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    Job · 27 verses

    Job 5

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    A man’s security is promised as a covenant with the stones of the field, while wild animals are said to be at peace with him.

    Trouble rises from somewherevv. 1–7

    The speech opens with a challenge to call out, though no answer is promised. Resentment and envy are assigned the killing work, while the fool’s household, sons, harvest, and wealth are all overtaken. Trouble does not grow from dust or ground, yet man is born to it as sparks fly upward—a brisk little meteorology of misery.

    A treaty with the field-stonesvv. 8–27

    The counsel turns toward God, whose works include rain, rescue for the lowly, and the unravelling of crafty schemes. Correction is called blessed because the same hands that wound also bind and heal. Then comes a remarkable catalogue of safety: rescue from six calamities and seven, laughter at destruction and famine, peace with wild animals, a secure tent, abundant descendants, and a grave reached in full vigor. The speech ends with the confidence of an investigation already completed.

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    1. Job 5:1“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

    2. Job 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

    3. Job 5:3I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

    4. Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

    5. Job 5:5The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

    6. Job 5:6For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

    7. Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

    8. Job 5:8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

    9. Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

    10. Job 5:10He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

    11. Job 5:11He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

    12. Job 5:12He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

    13. Job 5:13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

    14. Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

    15. Job 5:15He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

    16. Job 5:16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

    17. Job 5:17Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

    18. Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

    19. Job 5:19He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

    20. Job 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

    21. Job 5:21You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

    22. Job 5:22You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

    23. Job 5:23For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

    24. Job 5:24You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.

    25. Job 5:25You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.

    26. Job 5:26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

    27. Job 5:27Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 261 passages were voted onto 27 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 12Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
    • 12Psalms 33:10–11The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
    • 12Isaiah 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
    • 12Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
    • 12Psalms 37:17For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
    • 18Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
    • 19Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
    • 12Acts 12:11Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
    • 12Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
    • 18Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
    • 17James 1:12Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
    • 191 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
    • 18Psalms 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
    • 18Isaiah 30:26The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
    • 12Nehemiah 4:15When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
    • 181 Samuel 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

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