{"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/drb/job/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T18:05:02.246Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 thee, and turn to some of the saints. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Man is born to labour and the bird to fly. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God: "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number: "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters: "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked: "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord: "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Behold, this is even so, as we have searched oat: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 5 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 5](https://primebible.com/drb/job/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}