Douay Bible - Job Chapter 5

Job 5:1
Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.

Job 5:2
Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

Job 5:3
I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.

Job 5:4
His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

Job 5:6
Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.

Job 5:7
Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.

Job 5:8
Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

Job 5:9
Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:

Job 5:10
Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:

Job 5:11
Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.

Job 5:12
Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

Job 5:13
Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:

Job 5:14
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 5:15
But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

Job 5:16
And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.

Job 5:17
Blessed is the mall whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:

Job 5:18
For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

Job 5:19
In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.

Job 5:20
In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.

Job 5:21
Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.

Job 5:22
In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Job 5:23
But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee.

Job 5:24
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.

Job 5:25
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

Job 5:26
Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

Job 5:27
Behold, this is even so, as we have searched oat: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.

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