Job 5

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Call now! Will anyone respond to you? To which of the holy ones will you appeal?	1 Make your appeal then. Wil you find an answer? To which of the holy ones wil you turn?
2 Nay, impatience kills the fool and indignation slays the simpleton.	2 Resentment kil s the senseless, and anger brings death to the fool.
3 I have seen a fool spreading his roots, but his household suddenly decayed.	3 I have seen the senseless taking root, when a curse fel suddenly on his house.
4 His children shall be far from safety; they shall be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.	4 His children are deprived of prop and stay, ruined at the gate, and no one to defend them;
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.	5 their harvest goes to feed the hungry, God snatches it from their mouths, and covetous people thirst fortheir possessions.
6 For mischief comes not out of the earth, nor does trouble spring out of the ground;	6 No, misery does not grow out of the soil, nor sorrow spring from the ground.
7 But man himself begets mischief, as sparks fly upward.	7 It is people who breed trouble for themselves as surely as eagles fly to the height.
8 In your place, I would appeal to God, and to God I would state my plea.	8 If I were you, I should appeal to God and lay my case before him.
9	9 His works are great, past al reckoning, marvels beyond al counting.
10 He gives rain upon the earth and sends water upon the fields;	10 He sends down rain to the earth, pours down water on the fields.
11 He sets up on high the lowly, and those who mourn he exalts to safety.	11 If his wil is to raise up the downcast, or exalt the afflicted to the heights of prosperity,
12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning, so that their hands achieve no success;	12 he frustrates the plans of the artful so that they cannot succeed in their intrigues.
13 He catches the wise in their own ruses, and the designs of the crafty are routed.	13 He traps the crafty in the snare of their own trickery, throws the plans of the cunning into disarray.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and at noonday they grope as though it were night.	14 In daylight they come up against darkness, and grope their way as if noon were night.
15 But the poor from the edge of the sword and from the hand of the mighty, he saves.	15 He rescues the bankrupt from their jaws, and the needy from the grasp of the mighty.
16 Thus the unfortunate have hope, and iniquity closes her mouth.	16 Hope springs afresh for the weak, and wickedness must shut its mouth.
17 Happy is the man whom God reproves! The Almighty's chastening do not reject.	17 Blessed are those whom God corrects! Do not then scorn the lesson of Shaddai!
18 For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands give healing.	18 For he who wounds is he who soothes the sore, and the hand that hurts is the hand that heals.
19 Out of six troubles he will deliver you, and at the seventh no evil shall touch you.	19 Six times he wil deliver you from sorrow, and the seventh time, evil wil not touch you.
20 In famine he will deliver you from death, and in war from the threat of the sword;	20 In time of famine, he wil save you from death, and in wartime from the stroke of the sword.
21 From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, and shall not fear approaching ruin.	21 You will be safe from the lash of the tongue, unafraid at the approach of the despoiler.
22 At destruction and want you shall laugh; the beasts of the earth you need not dread.	22 You will laugh at drought and frost, and have no fear of the beasts of the earth.
23 You shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild beasts shall be at peace with you.	23 You will have a pact with the stones of the field, and live in amity with wild beasts.
24 And you shall know that your tent is secure; taking stock of your household, you shall miss nothing.	24 You will know that your tent is secure, and your sheepfold unharmed when you inspect it.
25 You shall know that your descendants are many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.	25 You will see your descendants multiply, your offspring grow like the grass in the fields.
26 You shall approach the grave in full vigor, as a shock of grain comes in at its season.	26 At a ripe age you wil go to the grave, like a wheatsheaf stacked in due season.
27 Lo, this we have searched out; so it is! This we have heard, and you should know.	27 Al this we have observed and it is so! Heed it, you wil be the wiser for it!