Job 4:1

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Eliphaz

4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite^(A) replied:

Job 5:1-11

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5 “Call if you will, but who will answer you?^(A)
    To which of the holy ones^(B) will you turn?
²Resentment^(C) kills a fool,
    and envy slays the simple.^(D)
³I myself have seen^(E) a fool taking root,^(F)
    but suddenly^(G) his house was cursed.^(H)
⁴His children^(I) are far from safety,^(J)
    crushed in court^(K) without a defender.^(L)
⁵The hungry consume his harvest,^(M)
    taking it even from among thorns,
    and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
⁶For hardship does not spring from the soil,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground.^(N)
⁷Yet man is born to trouble^(O)
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

⁸“But if I were you, I would appeal to God;
    I would lay my cause before him.^(P)
⁹He performs wonders^(Q) that cannot be fathomed,^(R)
    miracles that cannot be counted.^(S)
¹⁰He provides rain for the earth;^(T)
    he sends water on the countryside.^(U)
¹¹The lowly he sets on high,^(V)
    and those who mourn^(W) are lifted^(X) to safety.

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Job 5:17-21

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¹⁷“Blessed is the one whom God corrects;^(A)
    so do not despise the discipline^(B) of the Almighty.^[a]^(C)
¹⁸For he wounds, but he also binds up;^(D)
    he injures, but his hands also heal.^(E)
¹⁹From six calamities he will rescue^(F) you;
    in seven no harm will touch you.^(G)
²⁰In famine^(H) he will deliver you from death,
    and in battle from the stroke of the sword.^(I)
²¹You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,^(J)
    and need not fear^(K) when destruction comes.^(L)