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Job 5 Catholic Public Domain Version

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Notes on this text (3)
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1 Therefore call, if there are any who will respond to you, and turn to one or another of the saints.
1 “Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 Truly, anger condemns the foolish to death, and envy kills the petty.
2 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I have cursed his excellence without hesitation.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His sons will be far from prosperity and will be crushed at the gate, and there will be none who can rescue them.
4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
5 Their harvest, the starving will eat. The armed man will rob him, and the thirsty will drink his resources.
5 whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
6 Nothing on earth occurs without a reason, and sorrow does not rise from the earth.
6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.
7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 Therefore, because of this, I will beg the Lord, and place my eloquence before God.
8 “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
9 He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.
9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
10 He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters.
10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
11 He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health.
11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
12 He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.
12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
13 He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
14 They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.
14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15 Thereafter, he will act to save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16 And there will be hope for those in need, for iniquity will diminish its speech.
16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
17 Blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not reject the chastisement of the Lord.
17 “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
18 For he wounds and he cures; he strikes and his hands will heal.
18 For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
19 He will deliver you into six tribulations, and in the seventh, evil will not touch you.
19 He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
20 During famine, he will rescue you from death, and during war, from the hand of the sword.
20 In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you will not fear calamity when it arrives.
21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 In desolation and in famine, you will laugh, and you will not dread the beasts of the earth.
22 You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
23 For you are in harmony with the stones of the land, and the beasts of the earth will make peace with you.
23 For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
24 And you will know that your home has peace, and, concerning your appearance, you will not sin.
24 You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
25 Likewise, you will know that your offspring will be manifold and your progeny will be like the grass of the earth.
25 You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 You will enter the grave with abundance, just as a crop of wheat is gathered in its time.
26 You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
27 Behold, this is just as we have found it, which you have heard; walk it through your mind.
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. 1 Job 15:15; Job 15:8–10; Job 4:18; Isaiah 41:21–23; Ephesians 1:1
  2. 2 Ecclesiastes 7:9; Job 18:4; Hosea 7:11; Psalm 92:6; Psalm 14:1
  3. 3 Psalm 73:18–20; Psalm 92:7; Deuteronomy 27:15–26; Psalm 37:35–36; Job 27:8
  4. 4 Psalm 127:5; Job 18:16–19; Psalm 119:155; Job 10:7; Psalm 109:9–15
  5. 5 Lamentations 2:16; Hosea 8:7; Jeremiah 51:44; Jeremiah 51:34; Judges 6:11
  6. 6 Isaiah 45:7; 1 Samuel 6:9; Psalm 90:7; Job 34:29; Hosea 10:4
  7. 7 Job 14:1; Genesis 3:17–19; Ecclesiastes 5:15–17; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Psalm 90:8–9
  8. 8 Psalm 50:15; Psalm 37:5; Job 22:21; 2 Chronicles 33:12–13; 1 Peter 4:19
  9. 9 Psalm 40:5; Job 9:10; Psalm 86:10; Psalm 72:18; Job 11:7–9
  10. 10 Jeremiah 5:24; Acts 14:17; Psalm 147:8; Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 65:9–11
  11. 11 Psalm 113:7; Luke 6:21; 1 Samuel 2:7–8; Luke 1:52–53; Psalm 107:41
  12. 12 Psalm 33:10–11; Psalm 21:11; Isaiah 8:10; Proverbs 21:30; Psalm 37:17
  13. 13 1 Corinthians 3:19; Psalm 9:15–16; Psalm 7:15–16; Luke 1:51; 1 Corinthians 1:19–20
  14. 14 Job 12:25; Deuteronomy 28:29; Isaiah 59:10; Proverbs 4:19; Amos 8:9
  15. 15 Psalm 35:10; Psalm 140:12; Psalm 109:31; Psalm 72:4; Psalm 10:17
  16. 16 Psalm 107:42; Psalm 63:11; 1 Samuel 2:8–9; Romans 3:19; Exodus 11:7
  17. 17 James 1:12; Psalm 94:12; Proverbs 3:11–12; Revelation 3:19; James 5:11
  18. 18 Hosea 6:1; Deuteronomy 32:39; Psalm 147:3; Isaiah 30:26; 1 Samuel 2:6
  19. 19 Psalm 34:19; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Psalm 91:3–10; Proverbs 24:16; 2 Peter 2:9
  20. 20 Psalm 33:19; Hosea 13:14; Genesis 45:7; Psalm 37:19; 1 Kings 17:6
  21. 21 Psalm 31:20; Psalm 91:5–7; Proverbs 12:18; Jeremiah 18:18; Psalm 55:21
  22. 22 Ezekiel 34:25; Isaiah 35:9; Psalm 91:13; Hosea 2:18; Isaiah 65:25
  23. 23 Leviticus 26:6; Daniel 6:22; Isaiah 11:6–9; Psalm 91:12–13; Hosea 2:18
  24. 24 Psalm 121:7–8; Psalm 91:10; Job 8:6; Isaiah 4:5–6; Deuteronomy 28:6
  25. 25 Psalm 112:2; Psalm 72:16; Deuteronomy 28:4; Genesis 15:5; Job 42:13–16
  26. 26 Job 42:16–17; Proverbs 9:11; Psalm 91:16; Genesis 15:15; Proverbs 10:27
  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).

  1. Quotes verse 5:13 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV, Chapter XIV)

    … 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)