Job 5:8-16
English Standard Version
8 “As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause,
9 who (A)does great things and (B)unsearchable,
(C)marvelous things without number:
10 he gives (D)rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;
11 he (E)sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
12 He (F)frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
13 He (G)catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime
and (H)grope at noonday as in the night.
15 But he (I)saves the needy from the sword of their mouth
and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor have hope,
and (J)injustice shuts her mouth.
Job 5:8-16
Common English Bible
The answer is God
8 But I would seek God,
put my case to God,
9 who does great things beyond comprehension,
wonderful things without number;
10 who provides rain over the earth’s surface,
sends water to the open country,
11 exalts the lowly,
raises mourners to victory;
12 who frustrates the schemes of the clever
so that their hands achieve no success,
13 trapping the wise in their cleverness
so that the plans of the devious don’t succeed.
14 They encounter darkness during the day,
and at noon they fumble about as at night.
15 Yet he rescues the orphan[a] from the sword of their mouth,
the needy from the grip of the strong;
16 so the poor have hope
and violence shuts its mouth.
Footnotes
- Job 5:15 Heb lacks orphan.
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