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| | Job 5:1 | "Call now, is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?
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| | Job 5:2 | "For anger slays the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple.
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| | Job 5:3 | "I have seen the foolish taking root, And I cursed his abode immediately.
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| | Job 5:4 | "His sons are far from safety, They are even oppressed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
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| | Job 5:5 | "His harvest the hungry devour And take it to a place of thorns, And the schemer is eager for their wealth.
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| | Job 5:6 | "For affliction does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
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| | Job 5:7 | For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward.
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| | Job 5:8 | "But as for me, I would seek God, And I would place my cause before God;
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| | Job 5:9 | Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number.
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| | Job 5:10 | "He gives rain on the earth And sends water on the fields,
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| | Job 5:11 | So that He sets on high those who are lowly, And those who mourn are lifted to safety.
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| | Job 5:12 | "He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success.
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| | Job 5:13 | "He captures the wise by their own shrewdness, And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.
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| | Job 5:14 | "By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.
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| | Job 5:15 | "But He saves from the sword of their mouth, And the poor from the hand of the mighty.
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| | Job 5:16 | "So the helpless has hope, And unrighteousness must shut its mouth.
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| | Job 5:17 | "Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves, So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
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| | Job 5:18 | "For He inflicts pain, and gives relief; He wounds, and His hands also heal.
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| | Job 5:19 | "From six troubles He will deliver you, Even in seven evil will not touch you.
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| | Job 5:20 | "In famine He will redeem you from death, And in war from the power of the sword.
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| | Job 5:21 | "You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, And you will not be afraid of violence when it comes.
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| | Job 5:22 | "You will laugh at violence and famine, And you will not be afraid of wild beasts.
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| | Job 5:23 | "For you will be in league with the stones of the field, And the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
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| | Job 5:24 | "You will know that your tent is secure, For you will visit your abode and fear no loss.
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| | Job 5:25 | "You will know also that your descendants will be many, And your offspring as the grass of the earth.
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| | Job 5:26 | "You will come to the grave in full vigor, Like the stacking of grain in its season.
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| | Job 5:27 | "Behold this; we have investigated it, and so it is. Hear it, and know for yourself."
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
