Job 5

1 Call if you want, but who is going to answer you? Which angel are you going to turn to?

Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?

2 Surely anger slays the fool and jealousy kills the simple.

Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.

3 I have seen a fool growing strong, but I immediately cursed his house.

I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,

4 His sons are never safe; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.

His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them.

5 The hungry eat everything he has harvested, taking even that protected by a thorn hedge, while others look to steal his wealth.

The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

6 For evil doesn't come from the dust; neither does trouble grow from the earth.

For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

7 But human beings are born for trouble just as certainly as sparks from a fire fly upwards.

But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.

8 If it were me, I would go to God and put my case before him.

But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:

9 He is the one who does amazing, incredible things; miracles that can't be counted!

Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.

10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.

He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,

11 He exalts the humble, and rescues those who mourn.

And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.

12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning so that they are unsuccessful.

He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.

13 He traps the wise in their own clever thinking, and the schemes of twisted people are cut short.

He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.

14 In the daytime they're in the dark, and they stumble around at noon like it's night.

They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.

15 But God is the one who saves from their cutting remarks, and the poor from the actions of the powerful.

But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,

16 As a result those who are helpless have hope, and the wicked have to shut their mouths!

So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.

17 See how happy is the person God corrects—so don't despise the Almighty's discipline.

Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

18 For he causes pain but he provides relief; he wounds but his hands heal.

For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.

19 He will save you from many disasters; a multitude of evils will not affect you.

He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.

20 In times of famine he will rescue you from death, and in times of war he will save you from the power of the sword.

In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.

21 You will be protected from sharp-tongued slander; and when violence comes you will not be afraid.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.

22 You will laugh at violence and famine; you won't be afraid of wild animals—

But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.

23 for you will be at peace with the stones of the field and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee.

24 You will be certain that your home is safe, for you will go to where you live and find nothing missing.

And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.

25 You will also be sure that you will have many children; your descendants will be like the grass of the earth.

Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.

26 You will live to a ripe old age like a sheaf of grain when it is harvested.

Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.

27 Look, we've examined it, and it's true! Listen to what I'm saying and apply it to yourself!”

Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.