Job 5:8-16

Common English Bible

⁸ But I would seek God,
        put my case to God,
⁹     who does great things beyond comprehension,
    wonderful things without number;
¹⁰     who provides rain over the earth’s surface,
    sends water to the open country,
¹¹     exalts the lowly,
        raises mourners to victory;
¹²     who frustrates the schemes of the clever
        so that their hands achieve no success,
¹³     trapping the wise in their cleverness
            so that the plans of the devious don’t succeed.
¹⁴ They encounter darkness during the day,
    and at noon they fumble about as at night.
¹⁵ Yet he rescues the orphan^[a] from the sword of their mouth,
    the needy from the grip of the strong;
¹⁶         so the poor have hope
        and violence shuts its mouth.