Job 5:8-20

8“As for me, I would seek God and inquire of Him, And I would commit my cause to God;

9Who does great and unsearchable things, Marvelous things without number.

10He gives rain upon the earth And sends waters upon the fields,

11So that He sets on high those who are lowly, And He lifts to safety those who mourn.

12He frustrates the devices and schemes of the crafty, So that their hands cannot attain success or achieve anything of [lasting] worth.

13He catches the [so-called] wise in their own shrewdness, And the advice of the devious is quickly thwarted.

14In the daytime they meet in darkness, And at noon they grope as in the night.

15But God saves [the innocent] from the sword of the mouth of the devious, And the poor from the hand of the mighty.

16So the helpless have hope, And injustice shuts its mouth.

17“Behold, how happy and fortunate is the man whom God reproves, So do not despise or reject the discipline of the Almighty [subjecting you to trial and suffering].

18For He inflicts pain, but He binds up and gives relief; He wounds, but His hands also heal.

19He will rescue you from six troubles; Even in seven, evil will not touch you.

20In famine He will redeem you from death, And in war from the power of the sword.