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The Book of Job
Chapter 5
Eliphaz proceeds in his charge, and exhorts Job to acknowledge his sins.
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Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints. |
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Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one. |
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I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately. |
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His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them. |
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Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches. |
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Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground. |
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Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly. |
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Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God: |
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Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things without number: |
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Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters: |
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Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn. |
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Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: |
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Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked: |
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They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night. |
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But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent. |
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And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth. |
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Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord. |
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For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal. |
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In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee. |
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In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from the hand of the sword. |
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Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh. |
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In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth. |
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But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee. |
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And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin. |
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth. |
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Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season. |
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Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind. |
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