Job 5

Job 5 in full

King James Version, 27 verses. Tap a reference to link straight to a single verse.

1. Job 5:1

   Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

2. Job 5:2

   For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

3. Job 5:3

   I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4. Job 5:4

   His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

5. Job 5:5

   Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

6. Job 5:6

   Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

7. Job 5:7

   Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

8. Job 5:8

   I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

9. Job 5:9

   Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

10. Job 5:10

    Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

11. Job 5:11

    To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

12. Job 5:12

    He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

13. Job 5:13

    He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

14. Job 5:14

    They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

15. Job 5:15

    But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

16. Job 5:16

    So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

17. Job 5:17

    Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

18. Job 5:18

    For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

19. Job 5:19

    He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

20. Job 5:20

    In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

21. Job 5:21

    Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

22. Job 5:22

    At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

23. Job 5:23

    For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

24. Job 5:24

    And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

25. Job 5:25

    Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

26. Job 5:26

    Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

27. Job 5:27

    Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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Job 5 is part of Job, book 18 of the 66 in the King James Bible. Read the 42 chapters straight through, or search any word across all 66 books.