Job 5

1“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?Cross-references: Deut 33:2 · Job 4:18 · Job 15:8 · Job 15:15 · Ps 16:3 · Ps 106:16 · +4 more

2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.Cross-references: Gen 30:1 · 1Sam 18:8 · Job 18:4 · Ps 14:1 · Ps 75:4 · Ps 92:6 · +9 more

3I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.Cross-references: Deut 27:15 · Job 24:18 · Job 27:8 · Ps 37:35 · Ps 69:25 · Ps 73:3 · +4 more

4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Job 1:19 · Job 4:10 · Job 8:4 · Job 10:7 · Job 18:16 · +7 more

5whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.Cross-references: Deut 28:33 · Deut 28:51 · Judg 6:3 · Judg 6:11 · 2Chr 33:11 · Job 1:15 · +11 more

6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;Cross-references: Deut 32:27 · 1Sam 6:9 · Job 34:29 · Ps 90:7 · Isa 45:7 · Lam 3:38 · +3 more

7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Cross-references: Gen 3:17 · Job 14:1 · Ps 90:8 · Eccl 1:8 · Eccl 2:22 · Eccl 5:15 · +1 more

8“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,Cross-references: Gen 32:7 · 2Chr 33:12 · Job 8:5 · Job 22:21 · Job 22:27 · Ps 37:5 · +6 more

9who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;Cross-references: Job 9:10 · Job 11:7 · Job 26:5 · Job 37:5 · Job 42:3 · Ps 40:5 · +5 more

10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;Cross-references: Job 28:26 · Job 36:28 · Job 38:26 · Ps 65:9 · Ps 147:8 · Jer 5:24 · +4 more

11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.Cross-references: Deut 33:27 · 1Sam 2:7 · Ps 91:14 · Ps 107:41 · Ps 113:7 · Ezek 17:24 · +6 more

12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.Cross-references: Neh 4:15 · Job 12:16 · Ps 21:11 · Ps 33:10 · Ps 37:17 · Prov 21:30 · +5 more

13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 15:34 · 2Sam 17:23 · Esth 6:4 · Esth 7:10 · Esth 9:25 · +8 more

14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.Cross-references: Deut 28:29 · Job 12:25 · Prov 4:19 · Isa 59:10 · Amos 8:9

15But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.Cross-references: Job 4:10 · Ps 10:14 · Ps 10:17 · Ps 35:10 · Ps 72:4 · Ps 72:12 · +3 more

16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.Cross-references: Ex 11:7 · 1Sam 2:8 · Ps 9:18 · Ps 63:11 · Ps 107:42 · Isa 14:32 · +2 more

17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.Cross-references: Ps 94:12 · Prov 3:11 · Jer 31:18 · Heb 12:5 · James 1:12 · James 5:11 · +1 more

18For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.Cross-references: Deut 32:39 · 1Sam 2:6 · Ps 147:3 · Isa 30:26 · Hos 6:1

19He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.Cross-references: Ps 34:19 · Ps 91:3 · Prov 24:16 · 1Cor 10:13 · 2Cor 1:8 · 2Pet 2:9

20In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.Cross-references: Gen 45:7 · 1Ki 17:6 · Ps 27:3 · Ps 33:19 · Ps 37:19 · Ps 49:7 · +6 more

21You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.Cross-references: Ps 31:20 · Ps 55:21 · Ps 57:4 · Ps 91:5 · Prov 12:18 · Isa 54:17 · +2 more

22You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:21 · Ps 91:13 · Isa 35:9 · Isa 65:25 · Ezek 34:25 · Hos 2:18

23For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.Cross-references: Lev 26:6 · Ps 91:12 · Isa 11:6 · Ezek 14:15 · Dan 6:22 · Hos 2:18 · +1 more

24You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.Cross-references: Deut 28:6 · 1Sam 30:3 · Job 8:6 · Job 18:6 · Job 18:15 · Job 18:21 · +7 more

25You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.Cross-references: Gen 15:5 · Lev 26:9 · Deut 28:4 · Job 42:13 · Ps 72:16 · Ps 112:2 · +3 more

26You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.Cross-references: Gen 15:15 · Gen 25:8 · Job 42:16 · Ps 91:16 · Prov 9:11 · Prov 10:27

27Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”Cross-references: Deut 10:13 · Job 8:8 · Job 12:2 · Job 15:9 · Job 15:17 · Job 22:2 · +4 more