{"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/web/job/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:39:42.366Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple."},{"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. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"|But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"|Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"You shall be hidden from the scourge 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 animals of the earth."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 5 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 5](https://primebible.com/web/job/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/5 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}