Job 5:8-20

8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.10He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.11He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.12He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.13He catches the wise in their craftiness,1 and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.15He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.