{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:32:39.479Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the fraudulent is carried headlong."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"You shall be hid from the whip of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 5 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 5](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}