Job · Brenton's English Septuagint
Job 5 Brenton's English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.
1 “Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
2 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
3 And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.
4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
5 For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.
5 whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
6 For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
8 “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
9 who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:
9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
10 who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
11 who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
12 frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
13 who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
14 In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15 and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16 And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
17 But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
17 “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
18 For he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.
18 For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
19 Six times he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.
19 He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
20 In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.
20 In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
21 He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.
21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.
22 You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
23 For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
23 For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
24 Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.
24 You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
25 And thou shalt know that thy seed [shall be] abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.
25 You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.
26 You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
27 Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything [wrong].
27 Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 15:15; Job 15:8–10; Job 4:18; Isaiah 41:21–23; Ephesians 1:1
- 2 Ecclesiastes 7:9; Job 18:4; Hosea 7:11; Psalm 92:6; Psalm 14:1
- 3 Psalm 73:18–20; Psalm 92:7; Deuteronomy 27:15–26; Psalm 37:35–36; Job 27:8
- 4 Psalm 127:5; Job 18:16–19; Psalm 119:155; Job 10:7; Psalm 109:9–15
- 5 Lamentations 2:16; Hosea 8:7; Jeremiah 51:44; Jeremiah 51:34; Judges 6:11
- 6 Isaiah 45:7; 1 Samuel 6:9; Psalm 90:7; Job 34:29; Hosea 10:4
- 7 Job 14:1; Genesis 3:17–19; Ecclesiastes 5:15–17; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Psalm 90:8–9
- 8 Psalm 50:15; Psalm 37:5; Job 22:21; 2 Chronicles 33:12–13; 1 Peter 4:19
- 9 Psalm 40:5; Job 9:10; Psalm 86:10; Psalm 72:18; Job 11:7–9
- 10 Jeremiah 5:24; Acts 14:17; Psalm 147:8; Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 65:9–11
- 11 Psalm 113:7; Luke 6:21; 1 Samuel 2:7–8; Luke 1:52–53; Psalm 107:41
- 12 Psalm 33:10–11; Psalm 21:11; Isaiah 8:10; Proverbs 21:30; Psalm 37:17
- 13 1 Corinthians 3:19; Psalm 9:15–16; Psalm 7:15–16; Luke 1:51; 1 Corinthians 1:19–20
- 14 Job 12:25; Deuteronomy 28:29; Isaiah 59:10; Proverbs 4:19; Amos 8:9
- 15 Psalm 35:10; Psalm 140:12; Psalm 109:31; Psalm 72:4; Psalm 10:17
- 16 Psalm 107:42; Psalm 63:11; 1 Samuel 2:8–9; Romans 3:19; Exodus 11:7
- 17 James 1:12; Psalm 94:12; Proverbs 3:11–12; Revelation 3:19; James 5:11
- 18 Hosea 6:1; Deuteronomy 32:39; Psalm 147:3; Isaiah 30:26; 1 Samuel 2:6
- 19 Psalm 34:19; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Psalm 91:3–10; Proverbs 24:16; 2 Peter 2:9
- 20 Psalm 33:19; Hosea 13:14; Genesis 45:7; Psalm 37:19; 1 Kings 17:6
- 21 Psalm 31:20; Psalm 91:5–7; Proverbs 12:18; Jeremiah 18:18; Psalm 55:21
- 22 Ezekiel 34:25; Isaiah 35:9; Psalm 91:13; Hosea 2:18; Isaiah 65:25
- 23 Leviticus 26:6; Daniel 6:22; Isaiah 11:6–9; Psalm 91:12–13; Hosea 2:18
- 24 Psalm 121:7–8; Psalm 91:10; Job 8:6; Isaiah 4:5–6; Deuteronomy 28:6
- 25 Psalm 112:2; Psalm 72:16; Deuteronomy 28:4; Genesis 15:5; Job 42:13–16
- 26 Job 42:16–17; Proverbs 9:11; Psalm 91:16; Genesis 15:15; Proverbs 10:27
- 27 Psalm 111:2; Proverbs 9:12; Job 32:11–12; Deuteronomy 10:13; Proverbs 2:3–5
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… eye on virgins, according to the prophecy of Isaiah, who said, Behold a virgin shall conceive and bare a Son and shall call His name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us,' in order that he who taketh the wise in their own craftiness may deceive him who always glorieth in his wisdom, the maiden is given in marriage …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)