Job 5

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.	1 Call now! Will anyone respond to you? To which of the holy ones will you appeal?
2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.	2 Nay, impatience kills the fool and indignation slays the simpleton.
3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.	3 I have seen a fool spreading his roots, but his household suddenly decayed.
4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.	4 His children shall be far from safety; they shall be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.
5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.	5 What they have reaped the hungry shall eat up; (or God shall take it away by blight;) and the thirsty shall swallow their substance.
6 Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.	6 For mischief comes not out of the earth, nor does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.	7 But man himself begets mischief, as sparks fly upward.
8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:	8 In your place, I would appeal to God, and to God I would state my plea.
9 Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:	9
10 Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:	10 He gives rain upon the earth and sends water upon the fields;
11 Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.	11 He sets up on high the lowly, and those who mourn he exalts to safety.
12 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:	12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning, so that their hands achieve no success;
13 Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:	13 He catches the wise in their own ruses, and the designs of the crafty are routed.
14 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.	14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and at noonday they grope as though it were night.
15 But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.	15 But the poor from the edge of the sword and from the hand of the mighty, he saves.
16 And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.	16 Thus the unfortunate have hope, and iniquity closes her mouth.
17 Blessed is the mall whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:	17 Happy is the man whom God reproves! The Almighty's chastening do not reject.
18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.	18 For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands give healing.
19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.	19 Out of six troubles he will deliver you, and at the seventh no evil shall touch you.
20 In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.	20 In famine he will deliver you from death, and in war from the threat of the sword;
21 Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.	21 From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, and shall not fear approaching ruin.
22 In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.	22 At destruction and want you shall laugh; the beasts of the earth you need not dread.
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.	23 You shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild beasts shall be at peace with you.
24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.	24 And you shall know that your tent is secure; taking stock of your household, you shall miss nothing.
25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.	25 You shall know that your descendants are many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.	26 You shall approach the grave in full vigor, as a shock of grain comes in at its season.
27 Behold, this is even so, as we have searched oat: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.	27 Lo, this we have searched out; so it is! This we have heard, and you should know.