Job 5:17-27

Revised Standard Version

¹⁷ “Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves;
    therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
¹⁸ For he wounds, but he binds up;
    he smites, but his hands heal.
¹⁹ He will deliver you from six troubles;
    in seven there shall no evil touch you.
²⁰ In famine he will redeem you from death,
    and in war from the power of the sword.
²¹ You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue,
    and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
²² At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
    and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
²³ For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,
    and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
²⁴ You shall know that your tent is safe,
    and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
²⁵ You shall know also that your descendants shall be many,
    and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
²⁶ You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,
    as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.
²⁷ Lo, this we have searched out; it is true.
    Hear, and know it for your good.”^[a]