### American Standard Version

Job 4

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 5
#### 1 | Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
#### 2 | For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
#### 3 | I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
#### 4 | His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
#### 5 | Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
#### 6 | For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
#### 7 | But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
#### 8 | But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
#### 9 | Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
#### 10 | Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
#### 11 | So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
#### 12 | He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
#### 13 | He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
#### 14 | They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
#### 15 | But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
#### 16 | So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
#### 17 | Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
#### 18 | For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.
#### 19 | He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
#### 20 | In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword.
#### 21 | Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
#### 22 | At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
#### 23 | For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
#### 24 | And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
#### 25 | Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
#### 26 | Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
#### 27 | Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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