Job 5:8-20

81“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

9He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;

10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

11he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.

12He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

13He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

15So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.

16Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

17“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

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

19He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

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