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| | Job 5:1 | "Call if you will, but who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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| | Job 5:2 | Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
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| | Job 5:3 | I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
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| | Job 5:4 | His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
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| | Job 5:5 | The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
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| | Job 5:6 | For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground.
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| | Job 5:7 | Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
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| | Job 5:8 | "But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him.
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| | Job 5:9 | He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.
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| | Job 5:10 | He bestows rain on the earth; he sends water upon the countryside.
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| | Job 5:11 | The lowly he sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
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| | Job 5:12 | He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
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| | Job 5:13 | He catches the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are swept away.
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| | Job 5:14 | Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night.
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| | Job 5:15 | He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth; he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.
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| | Job 5:16 | So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
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| | Job 5:17 | "Blessed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
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| | Job 5:18 | For he wounds, but he also binds up; he injures, but his hands also heal.
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| | Job 5:19 | From six calamities he will rescue you; in seven no harm will befall you.
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| | Job 5:20 | In famine he will ransom you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
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| | Job 5:21 | You will be protected from the lash of the tongue, and need not fear when destruction comes.
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| | Job 5:22 | You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
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| | Job 5:23 | For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
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| | Job 5:24 | You will know that your tent is secure; you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.
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| | Job 5:25 | You will know that your children will be many, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
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| | Job 5:26 | You will come to the grave in full vigor, like sheaves gathered in season.
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| | Job 5:27 | "We have examined this, and it is true. So hear it and apply it to yourself."
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