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| | Job 5:1 | "You may cry for help, but no one listens. You may turn to the angels, but they give you no help.
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| | Job 5:2 | Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple.
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| | Job 5:3 | From my experience, I know that fools who turn from God may be successful for the moment, but then comes sudden disaster.
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| | Job 5:4 | Their children are abandoned far from help, with no one to defend them.
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| | Job 5:5 | Their harvests are stolen, and their wealth satisfies the thirst of many others, not themselves!
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| | Job 5:6 | But evil does not spring from the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
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| | Job 5:7 | People are born for trouble as predictably as sparks fly upward from a fire.
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| | Job 5:8 | "My advice to you is this: Go to God and present your case to him.
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| | Job 5:9 | For he does great works too marvelous to understand. He performs miracles without number.
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| | Job 5:10 | He gives rain for the earth. He sends water for the fields.
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| | Job 5:11 | He gives prosperity to the poor and humble, and he takes sufferers to safety.
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| | Job 5:12 | He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so their efforts will not succeed.
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| | Job 5:13 | He catches those who think they are wise in their own cleverness, so that their cunning schemes are thwarted.
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| | Job 5:14 | They grope in the daylight as though they were blind; they see no better in the daytime than at night.
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| | Job 5:15 | He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong. He saves them from the clutches of the powerful.
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| | Job 5:16 | And so at last the poor have hope, and the fangs of the wicked are broken.
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| | Job 5:17 | "But consider the joy of those corrected by God! Do not despise the chastening of the Almighty when you sin.
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| | Job 5:18 | For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal.
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| | Job 5:19 | He will rescue you again and again so that no evil can touch you.
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| | Job 5:20 | He will save you from death in time of famine, from the power of the sword in time of war.
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| | Job 5:21 | You will be safe from slander and will have no fear of destruction when it comes.
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| | Job 5:22 | You will laugh at destruction and famine; wild animals will not terrify you.
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| | Job 5:23 | You will be at peace with the stones of the field, and its wild animals will be at peace with you.
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| | Job 5:24 | You will know that your home is kept safe. When you visit your pastures, nothing will be missing.
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| | Job 5:25 | Your children will be many; your descendants will be as plentiful as grass!
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| | Job 5:26 | You will live to a good old age. You will not be harvested until the proper time!
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| | Job 5:27 | "We have found from experience that all this is true. Listen to my counsel, and apply it to yourself."
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