Job 5:8-16

World English Bible

⁸ “But as for me, I would seek God.
    I would commit my cause to God,
⁹ who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
    marvelous things without number;
¹⁰ who gives rain on the earth,
    and sends waters on the fields;
¹¹ so that he sets up on high those who are low,
    those who mourn are exalted to safety.
¹² He frustrates the plans of the crafty,
    So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
    the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the day time,
    and grope at noonday as in the night.
¹⁵ But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
    even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
¹⁶ So the poor has hope,
    and injustice shuts her mouth.