Job 5:8-20

8But as for me, I would seek God; I would lay my cause before God.

9Who does great things beyond comprehension, wonders without number.

10Who gives rain to the earth and sends water over the plains.

11Who places the lowly on high and lifts mourners to salvation.

12Who frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands attain no success.

13Who catches the clever in their craftiness, and thwarts the plan of the cunning.

14By day they encounter darkness and grope at noon as if it were night.

15But He saves the needy from the sword of their mouth, and from the clutches of the mighty.

16So the helpless have hope and injustice shuts its mouth.

17Behold, happy is the one whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of Shaddai.

18For He inflicts pain, but He also binds up; He injures, yet His hands also heal.

19From six calamities He will deliver you, even in seven, no harm will touch you.

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