Job 5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 5
1 Call now! Will anyone respond to you?
To which of the holy ones[a] will you turn?
2 Surely impatience kills the fool
and indignation slays the simpleton.
3 I have seen a fool spreading his roots,(A)
but I cursed his household suddenly:
4 May his children be far from safety;
may they be crushed at the gate[b] without a rescuer.
5 What they have reaped may the hungry eat up,
or God take away by blight,
or the thirsty swallow their substance.
6 For not from dust does mischief come,
nor from the soil does trouble sprout.
7 Human beings beget mischief
as sparks[c] fly upward.
8 In your place, I would appeal to God,
and to God I would state my plea.
9 [d]He does things great and unsearchable,
things marvelous and innumerable.
10 He gives rain upon the earth
and sends water upon the fields;
11 (B)He sets up the lowly on high,
and those who mourn are raised to safety.
12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning,
so that their hands achieve no success;
13 He catches the wise in their own ruses,(C)
and the designs of the crafty are routed.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime,
at noonday they grope as though it were night.
15 But he saves the poor from the sword of their mouth,[e]
from the hand of the mighty.
16 Thus the needy have hope,
and iniquity closes its mouth.
17 Happy the one whom God reproves!
The Almighty’s[f] discipline do not reject.
18 For he wounds, but he binds up;(D)
he strikes, but his hands give healing.
19 Out of six troubles he will deliver you,
and at the seventh[g] no evil shall touch you.
20 In famine he will deliver you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword;
21 From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden,
and you shall not fear approaching ruin.
22 At ruin and want you shall laugh;
the beasts of the earth, do not fear.
23 With the stones of the field shall your covenant be,
and the wild beasts shall be at peace with you.
24 And you shall know that your tent is secure;
taking stock of your household, you shall miss nothing.
25 You shall know that your descendants are many,
and your offspring like the grass of the earth.
26 You shall approach the grave in full vigor,
as a shock of grain comes in at its season.
27 See, this we have searched out; so it is!
This we have heard, and you should know.
Footnotes
- 5:1 Holy ones: members of the heavenly court; cf. 1:6 and note. They were viewed as heavenly intercessors.
- 5:4 At the gate: of the city, where justice was administered.
- 5:7 Sparks: in Hebrew, “sons of resheph,” which the ancient versions took as the name of a bird. Resheph was an underworld deity of plague, but the word also means “flames” in Sg 8:6.
- 5:9 Perhaps to be omitted here; it is a duplicate of 9:10.
- 5:15 From the sword of their mouth: the Hebrew is obscure.
- 5:17 Almighty: standard translation of Heb. Shaddai.
- 5:19 Six…the seventh: proverbial expression for any large number; cf. Prv 24:16; Lk 17:4.
Job 5
Ang Salita ng Dios (Tagalog Contemporary Bible)
5 “Job, kahit humingi ka ng tulong, walang tutulong sa iyo. Kahit ang mga anghel[a] ay hindi ka tutulungan. 2 Ang galit at paninibugho ay pumapatay sa hangal at sa walang karunungan. 3 Ayon sa aking nakita at nalaman, maaaring umunlad ang pamumuhay ng isang hangal, pero bigla na lang isusumpa ng Dios ang sambahayan niya. 4 Ang mga anak niyaʼy walang malalapitan at wala ring magtatanggol sa kanila sa hukuman. 5 Ang ani niyaʼy kakainin ng iba. At kahit ang mga bungang nasa tinikan ay kukunin ng mga taong gutom. Ang kayamanan niyaʼy aagawin ng mga taong uhaw sa mga ari-arian. 6 Ang kahirapan at kaguluhan ay hindi tumutubo sa alikabok o lupa. 7 Likas sa tao ang gumawa ng kahirapan at kaguluhan, tulad ng alipatong mula sa apoy na lumilipad paitaas.
8 “Kung ako sa iyo, lalapit ako sa Dios. Sasabihin ko sa kanya ang aking kalagayan. 9 Sapagkat gumagawa siya ng mga kahanga-hangang bagay at mga himalang hindi kayang unawain o bilangin. 10 Nagpapadala siya ng ulan sa mundo at pinatutubigan niya ang mga bukirin. 11 Itinataas niya ang mga nagpapakumbaba at kinakalinga ang mga nagdadalamhati. 12 Sinisira niya ang plano ng mga mandaraya, para hindi sila magtagumpay. 13 Hinuhuli niya ang marurunong sa kanilang katusuhan, at hinahadlangan ang plano ng mga mandaraya. 14 Hindi sila nakakakita kahit maliwanag, at nangangapa sila na parang gabi kahit na katanghalian. 15 Inililigtas ng Dios ang mga dukha mula sa kamatayan at sa mga taong makapangyarihan na umaapi sa kanila. 16 Kaya may pag-asa ang mga dukha, pero ang masasama ay kanyang sinasaway.
17 “Mapalad ang taong itinutuwid ng Dios ang pag-uugali. Kaya huwag mong mamasamain ang pagtutuwid ng Makapangyarihang Dios sa iyo. 18 Sapagkat ang kanyang mga sinusugatan ay kanya ring ginagamot, at ang kanyang sinasaktan ay kanya ring pinagagaling. 19 Palagi ka niyang ililigtas sa mga salot at panganib. 20 Ililigtas ka niya sa kamatayan sa panahon ng taggutom at digmaan. 21 Iingatan ka niya kung sisiraan ka ng iba, at wala kang katatakutan kung dumating man ang kapahamakan. 22 Ang taggutom at kapahamakan ay iyong tatawanan at hindi ka matatakot sa mababangis na hayop, 23 sapagkat hindi ka gagalawin ng mga ito. At hindi ka na mahihirapang magtanim sa bukid mong mabato. 24 Mamumuhay ng payapa ang sambahayan mo at walang mawawala sa iyong mga hayop. 25 Dadami ang iyong angkan na parang kasindami ng mga damo sa lupa. 26 Hahaba ang buhay mo at hindi ka mamamatay nang hindi sa tamang panahon.[b] 27 Ayon sa aming nalaman at naranasan, napatunayan namin na talagang totoo ang lahat ng ito. Kaya dinggin mo ito at isabuhay para sa ikabubuti mo.”
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