Job 5:8-20

8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and would present my case to him.

9He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

10He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.

11He sets the lowly on high, and mourners are lifted to safety.

12He frustrates the schemes of the crafty so that they achieve no success.

13He traps the wise in their craftiness so that the plans of the deceptive are quickly brought to an end.

14They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.

15He saves the needy from their sharp words and from the clutches of the powerful.

16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

17See how happy is the person whom God corrects; so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

18For he wounds but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

19He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

20In famine he will redeem you from death, and in battle, from the power of the sword.