{"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/ylt/job/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:25:46.339Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I — I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Yet I — I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"By day they meet darkness, And as night — they grope at noon."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"(For with sons of the field is thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And thou hast known that thy tent is peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And hast known that numerous is Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Lo, this — we searched it out — it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 5 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 5](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/5 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}