5 Eliphaz: As for you, Job, feel free to call, but will anyone reply?
        Among His holy attendants, to whom will you turn?
²     Remember, anger kills off the foolish,
        and jealous indignation closes in on the simple for the kill.
³     I have seen a fool putting down roots, apparently succeeding,
        and immediately I cursed his house, knowing this brings destruction.
⁴     His children are far from safe,
        crushed in full view of the city’s gate with no defender nearby.
⁵     Hungry raiders consume his crops,
        harvesting even where the thorns stand guard^[a]
        while drifters and con-men target his wealth.
⁶     You see, sorrow is not a natural product of the soil,
        nor is trouble known to sprout up from the earth itself.
⁷     Still humankind is born into trouble,
        just as embers break loose and fly from the fire.

⁸     This is why, if I were you, I would appeal to God;
        I would lay my cause at the feet of the Lord.
⁹     He does wonderful things that confound,
        infinite numbers of miracles.
¹⁰     He gives rain to the earth,
        sends down water to the fields;
¹¹     He lifts up the downtrodden, bolsters the bereaved,
        raising them to safety.
¹²     He thwarts the plots of the devious
        and ties their hands to failure.
¹³     He catches the clever in their deceitful plotting^[b]
        so the plans of the crafty are swept away.
¹⁴     Their day turns to darkness;
        they grope at noon as they do in blackest night.
¹⁵     He saves the needy from the cutting sword,
        and from the perilous grip of the powerful.
¹⁶     So there is still hope for the helpless;
        and the mouth of injustice is muzzled.

¹⁷     Remember, a happy man accepts God’s correction,
        so don’t despise the discipline of the Highest God.^[c]
18     For the Lord may cut, but He stitches up;
        He may wound, but His hands also heal.
¹⁹     In six different perils, He will rescue you;
        even in seven, evil will not touch you;
²⁰     In famine, He will save you from starvation;
        and in war, you won’t be run through with the sword;
²¹     In slanderous situations, you will go unharmed;
        in the face of chaotic destruction, you won’t tremble;
²²     In violence and famine, you will laugh;
        in the presence of wild animals, you won’t quiver.
²³     The stones of the field will sign a treaty with you,
        and you’ll enjoy a truce with the ravenous beasts.
²⁴     You can rest knowing your tent is invincible;
        for when you visit your pastures, nothing will be missing.
²⁵     Your children and their children will be abundant,
        as the blades of grass in the fields.
²⁶     You will arrive hearty and undiminished at the grave after a long life,
        like a pile of grain harvested at its peak ripeness.
²⁷     We’ve all thought this through. It’s true, and you should hear it.
        So hear it well, and know it completely.