Job 5:8-20

8"As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,

9who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:

10he gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;

11he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

12He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

13He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

14They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.

15But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty.

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

17"Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.

18For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.

19He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no evil shall touch you.

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