Job 5

Tree of Life Version

5 “Cry out now! Will anyone answer you?
    To which of the holy ones will you turn?
² For resentment kills a fool,
    and envy slays the simple.
³ I myself have seen a fool taking root,
    but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
⁴ His sons are far from safety,
    and crushed at the gate without a deliverer!
⁵ The hungry consumes his harvest,
    taking it even from among thorns,
    and the thirsty pants after their wealth.
⁶ For evil does not come from the dust,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground.
⁷ Yet man is born for trouble,
    as surely as sparks fly upward.
⁸ But as for me, I would seek God;
    I would lay my cause before God.
⁹ Who does great things beyond comprehension,
    wonders without number.
¹⁰ Who gives rain to the earth
    and sends water over the plains.
¹¹ Who places the lowly on high
    and lifts mourners to salvation.
¹² Who frustrates the plans of the crafty,
    so that their hands attain no success.
¹³ Who catches the clever in their craftiness,
    and thwarts the plan of the cunning.
¹⁴ By day they encounter darkness
    and grope at noon as if it were night.
¹⁵ But He saves the needy from the sword of their mouth,
    and from the clutches of the mighty.
¹⁶ So the helpless have hope
    and injustice shuts its mouth.