Job 5:8-16
Expanded Bible
8 “But if I were you, I would ·call on [L seek] God
and ·bring my problem [L commit my thoughts/cause] before him [C argues that Job needs to repent].
9 God does wonders that cannot be understood;
he does so many ·miracles [marvelous acts] they cannot be counted.
10 He gives rain to the earth
and sends water on the fields.
11 He makes the ·humble [lowly] person important [Ps. 113]
and lifts ·the sad [mourners] to places of safety.
12 He ruins the ·plans [pretensions; strategies] of those who ·trick others [are crafty]
so ·they [L their hands] have no success.
13 He catches the ·wise [crafty; clever] in their own ·clever traps [craftiness]
and ·sweeps away [ends; finishes off] the ·plans [advice; schemes] of those who ·try to trick others [are wily].
14 Darkness ·covers them up [or encounters them] in the daytime;
even at noon they ·feel [grope] around in the dark.
15 God saves the needy from their lies
and from the harm done by powerful people.
16 So the poor have hope,
while those who are ·unfair [unjust] ·are silenced [L shut their mouth].
Job 5:8-16
Amplified Bible
8
“As for me, I would seek God and inquire of Him,
And I would commit my cause to God;
9
Who does great and unsearchable things,
Marvelous things without number.
10
“He gives rain upon the earth
And sends waters upon the fields,
11
So that He sets on high those who are lowly,
And He lifts to safety those who mourn.
12
“He frustrates the devices and schemes of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot attain success or achieve anything of [lasting] worth.
13
“He catches the [so-called] wise in their own shrewdness,
And the advice of the devious is quickly thwarted.(A)
14
“In the daytime they meet in darkness,
And at noon they grope as in the night.
15
“But God saves [the innocent] from the sword of the mouth of the devious,
And the poor from the hand of the mighty.
16
“So the helpless have hope,
And injustice shuts its mouth.
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