Job 5:8-16

Amplified Bible

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“As for me, I would seek God and inquire of Him,
And I would commit my cause to God;
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Who does great and unsearchable things,
Marvelous things without number.
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“He gives rain upon the earth
And sends waters upon the fields,
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So that He sets on high those who are lowly,
And He lifts to safety those who mourn.
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“He frustrates the devices and schemes of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot attain success or achieve anything of [lasting] worth.
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“He catches the [so-called] wise in their own shrewdness,
And the advice of the devious is quickly thwarted.^(A)
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“In the daytime they meet in darkness,
And at noon they grope as in the night.
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“But God saves [the innocent] from the sword of the mouth of the devious,
And the poor from the hand of the mighty.
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“So the helpless have hope,
And injustice shuts its mouth.