Job 5:8-16
1599 Geneva Bible
8 But I would inquire at [a]God, and turn my talk unto God:
9 Which [b]doeth great things, and unsearchable, and marvelous things without number.
10 He [c]giveth rain upon the earth, and poureth water upon the streets,
11 And setteth up on high them that be low, that the sorrowful may be exalted to salvation.
12 He scattereth the devices of the crafty: so that their hands cannot accomplish that which they do enterprise.
13 (A)He taketh the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
14 They meet with [d]darkness in the daytime, and [e]grope at noonday, as in the night.
15 But he saveth the [f]poor from the sword, from their [g]mouth, and from the hand of the violent man,
16 So that the poor hath his hope, but iniquity shall [h]stop her mouth.
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- Job 5:8 If I suffered as thou doest, I would seek unto God.
- Job 5:9 He counselleth Job to humble himself unto God to whom all creatures are subject and whose works declare that man is inexcusable except he glorify God in all his works.
- Job 5:10 He showeth by particular examples, what the works of God are.
- Job 5:14 In things plain and evident they show themselves fools instead of wise men.
- Job 5:14 This declareth that God punisheth the worldly wise, as he threatened, Deut. 28:29.
- Job 5:15 That is, he that humbleth himself before God.
- Job 5:15 He compareth the slander of the wicked to sharp swords.
- Job 5:16 If the wicked be compelled at God’s works to stop their mouths, much more they that profess God.
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