Job 5:8-20

8“If I were you, I would go to God and present my case to him.

9He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles.

10He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields.

11He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer.

12He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed.

13He traps the wise in their own cleverness so their cunning schemes are thwarted.

14They find it is dark in the daytime, and they grope at noon as if it were night.

15He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong, and rescues them from the clutches of the powerful.

16And so at last the poor have hope, and the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut.

17“But consider the joy of those corrected by God! Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty when you sin.

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

19From six disasters he will rescue you; even in the seventh, he will keep you from evil.

20He will save you from death in time of famine, from the power of the sword in time of war.