Job 5:8-16

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁸ As for me, I would seek God and inquire of and require Him, and to God would I commit my cause—

⁹ Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,

¹⁰ Who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields,

¹¹ So that He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn He lifts to safety.

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise or anything of [lasting] worth.

¹³ He catches the [so-called] wise in their own trickiness, and the counsel of the schemers is brought to a quick end.^(A)

¹⁴ In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.

¹⁵ But [God] saves [the fatherless] from the sword of their mouth, and the needy from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶ So the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts her mouth.