New American Standard Bible 1995

Job 5:8-20

8“But as for me, I would 1seek God, And I would place my cause before God;9Who 2does great and unsearchable things, 3Wonders without number.10He 4gives rain on the earth And sends water on the fields,11So that 5He sets on high those who are lowly, And those who mourn are lifted to safety.12He 6frustrates the plotting of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success.13He 7captures the wise by their own shrewdness, And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.14By day they 8meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.15But He saves from 9the sword of their mouth, And 10the poor from the hand of the mighty.16So the helpless has hope, And 11unrighteousness must shut its mouth.

17“Behold, how 12happy is the man whom God reproves, So do not despise the 13discipline of 14the Almighty.18For 15He inflicts pain, and 16gives relief; He wounds, and His hands also heal.19 17From six troubles 18He will deliver you, Even in seven 19evil will not touch you.20In 20famine He will redeem you from death, And 21in war from the power of the sword.

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Notes

1. Job 5:8 Job 13:2, 3; Ps 50:15 ↩
2. Job 5:9 Job 9:10; 37:14, 16; 42:3 ↩
3. Job 5:9 Or Miracles ↩
4. Job 5:10 Job 36:27-29; 37:6-11; 38:26 ↩
5. Job 5:11 Job 22:29; 36:7 ↩
6. Job 5:12 Ps 33:10 ↩
7. Job 5:13 Job 37:24; 1 Cor 3:19 ↩
8. Job 5:14 Job 12:25; 15:30; 18:18; 20:26; 24:13 ↩
9. Job 5:15 Job 4:10, 11; Ps 35:10 ↩
10. Job 5:15 Job 29:17; 34:28; 36:6, 15; 38:15 ↩
11. Job 5:16 Ps 107:42 ↩
12. Job 5:17 Ps 94:12 ↩
13. Job 5:17 Job 36:15, 16; Prov 3:11; Heb 12:5-11; James 1:12 ↩
14. Job 5:17 Heb Shaddai, and so throughout ch 6 ↩
15. Job 5:18 Deut 32:39; 1 Sam 2:6; Is 30:26; Hos 6:1 ↩
16. Job 5:18 Lit binds ↩
17. Job 5:19 Lit In ↩
18. Job 5:19 Ps 34:19 ↩
19. Job 5:19 Ps 91:10 ↩
20. Job 5:20 Ps 33:19; 37:19 ↩
21. Job 5:20 Ps 144:10 ↩

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