1898 Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job 5

1 The harm of inconsideration. 3 The end of the wicked is misery. 6 God is to be regarded in affliction. 17 The happy end of God's correction.

 5:1 ¶ Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?

 5:2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

 5:3 I—I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

 5:4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

 5:6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

 5:7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

 5:8 Yet I—I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

 5:9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

 5:10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.

 5:11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.

 5:12 Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

 5:13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

 5:14 By day they meet darkness, And as night—they grope at noon.

 5:15 And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,

 5:16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

 5:17 Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

 5:18 For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

 5:19 In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.

 5:20 In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.

 5:21 When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.

 5:22 At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

 5:23 (For with sons of the field [is] thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)

 5:24 And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,

 5:25 And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;

 5:26 Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

 5:27 Lo, this—we searched it out—it [is] right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!