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CHAPTER 5
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
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For wrath
killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
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I have seen the foolish taking root: but
suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate,
neither
is there
any to deliver
them.
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out
of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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Although affliction cometh not forth
of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the
sparks fly upward.
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I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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Which
doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
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Who giveth rain upon
the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
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To set up on high those that be low; that those
which mourn may be exalted to safety.
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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their
hands cannot perform
their
enterprise.
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel
of the froward is carried headlong.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the
noonday as in the night.
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But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the
hand of the mighty.
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So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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Behold, happy
is
the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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For
he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
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He shall deliver thee
in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
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In famine he shall redeem thee from
death: and in war from the power of the sword.
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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue:
neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
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At destruction and famine thou shalt
laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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For thou shalt be in league with the
stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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And thou shalt know
that thy tabernacle
shall be
in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
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Thou
shalt know also that thy seed
shall be
great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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Thou
shalt come to
thy
grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
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Lo this, we
have searched it, so it
is;
hear it, and know thou
it
for thy good.
CHAPTER 6
But Job answered and said,
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O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the
balances together!
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For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are
swallowed up.
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For the arrows of the Almighty
are
within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my
spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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Doth the wild ass bray when he
hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt?
or is there
any
taste in the white of an egg?
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The things
that
my soul refused to touch
are
as my
sorrowful meat.
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Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant
me
the thing that I
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