Job 5:8-16

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁸ “But I would seek God’s help
and present my case to him.
⁹ He does great things that ⌞we⌟ cannot understand
and miracles that ⌞we⌟ cannot count.
¹⁰ He gives rain to the earth
and sends water to the fields.
¹¹ He places lowly people up high.
He lifts those who mourn to safety.
¹² He keeps shrewd people from carrying out their plans
so that they cannot do anything successfully.
¹³ He catches the wise with their own tricks.
The plans of schemers prove to be hasty.
¹⁴ In the daytime they meet darkness
and grope in the sunlight as if it were night.

¹⁵ “But he saves ⌞other people⌟ from their slander
and the needy from the power of the mighty.
¹⁶ Then the poor have hope
while wrongdoing shuts its mouth.