Job 5

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Make your appeal then. Wil you find an answer? To which of the holy ones wil you turn?	1 Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
2 Resentment kil s the senseless, and anger brings death to the fool.	2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
3 I have seen the senseless taking root, when a curse fel suddenly on his house.	3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
4 His children are deprived of prop and stay, ruined at the gate, and no one to defend them;	4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
5 their harvest goes to feed the hungry, God snatches it from their mouths, and covetous people thirst fortheir possessions.	5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
6 No, misery does not grow out of the soil, nor sorrow spring from the ground.	6 Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
7 It is people who breed trouble for themselves as surely as eagles fly to the height.	7 Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
8 If I were you, I should appeal to God and lay my case before him.	8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
9 His works are great, past al reckoning, marvels beyond al counting.	9 Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
10 He sends down rain to the earth, pours down water on the fields.	10 Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
11 If his wil is to raise up the downcast, or exalt the afflicted to the heights of prosperity,	11 Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
12 he frustrates the plans of the artful so that they cannot succeed in their intrigues.	12 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
13 He traps the crafty in the snare of their own trickery, throws the plans of the cunning into disarray.	13 Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
14 In daylight they come up against darkness, and grope their way as if noon were night.	14 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15 He rescues the bankrupt from their jaws, and the needy from the grasp of the mighty.	15 But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
16 Hope springs afresh for the weak, and wickedness must shut its mouth.	16 And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.
17 Blessed are those whom God corrects! Do not then scorn the lesson of Shaddai!	17 Blessed is the mall whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:
18 For he who wounds is he who soothes the sore, and the hand that hurts is the hand that heals.	18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
19 Six times he wil deliver you from sorrow, and the seventh time, evil wil not touch you.	19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
20 In time of famine, he wil save you from death, and in wartime from the stroke of the sword.	20 In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
21 You will be safe from the lash of the tongue, unafraid at the approach of the despoiler.	21 Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.
22 You will laugh at drought and frost, and have no fear of the beasts of the earth.	22 In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 You will have a pact with the stones of the field, and live in amity with wild beasts.	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.
24 You will know that your tent is secure, and your sheepfold unharmed when you inspect it.	24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.
25 You will see your descendants multiply, your offspring grow like the grass in the fields.	25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
26 At a ripe age you wil go to the grave, like a wheatsheaf stacked in due season.	26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
27 Al this we have observed and it is so! Heed it, you wil be the wiser for it!	27 Behold, this is even so, as we have searched oat: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.