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Job 5 Darby Translation

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 1890
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1 Call, I pray thee! Is there any that answereth thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn? 2 For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple. 3 I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer: 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance. 6 For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards. 8 But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause; 9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number; 10 Who giveth rain on the face of the earth, and sendeth waters on the face of the fields; 11 Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise. 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong: 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night. 15 And he saveth the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth. 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty. 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 19 He will deliver thee in six troubles, and in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20 In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword. 21 Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it cometh. 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, and of the beasts of the earth thou shalt not be afraid. 23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. 24 And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou wilt survey thy fold, and miss nothing. 25 And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thine offspring as the herb of the earth. 26 Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season. 27 Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thyself.

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).

How these were chosen

“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)