Job 5

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Therefore call, if there are any who will respond to you, and turn to one or another of the saints.	1 Call now! Will anyone respond to you? To which of the holy ones will you appeal?
2 Truly, anger condemns the foolish to death, and envy kills the petty.	2 Nay, impatience kills the fool and indignation slays the simpleton.
3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I have cursed his excellence without hesitation.	3 I have seen a fool spreading his roots, but his household suddenly decayed.
4 His sons will be far from prosperity and will be crushed at the gate, and there will be none who can rescue them.	4 His children shall be far from safety; they shall be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.
5 Their harvest, the starving will eat. The armed man will rob him, and the thirsty will drink his resources.	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 on earth occurs without a reason, and sorrow does not rise from the earth.	6 For mischief comes not out of the earth, nor does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.	7 But man himself begets mischief, as sparks fly upward.
8 Therefore, because of this, I will beg the Lord, and place my eloquence before God.	8 In your place, I would appeal to God, and to God I would state my plea.
9 He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.	9
10 He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters.	10 He gives rain upon the earth and sends water upon the fields;
11 He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health.	11 He sets up on high the lowly, and those who mourn he exalts to safety.
12 He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.	12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning, so that their hands achieve no success;
13 He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.	13 He catches the wise in their own ruses, and the designs of the crafty are routed.
14 They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.	14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and at noonday they grope as though it were night.
15 Thereafter, he will act to 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 there will be hope for those in need, for iniquity will diminish its speech.	16 Thus the unfortunate have hope, and iniquity closes her mouth.
17 Blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not reject the chastisement of the Lord.	17 Happy is the man whom God reproves! The Almighty's chastening do not reject.
18 For he wounds and he cures; he strikes and his hands will heal.	18 For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands give healing.
19 He will deliver you into six tribulations, and in the seventh, evil will not touch you.	19 Out of six troubles he will deliver you, and at the seventh no evil shall touch you.
20 During famine, he will rescue you from death, and during war, 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 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you will not fear calamity when it arrives.	21 From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, and shall not fear approaching ruin.
22 In desolation and in famine, you will laugh, and you will not dread the beasts of the earth.	22 At destruction and want you shall laugh; the beasts of the earth you need not dread.
23 For you are in harmony with the stones of the land, and the beasts of the earth will make peace with you.	23 You shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild beasts shall be at peace with you.
24 And you will know that your home has peace, and, concerning your appearance, you will not sin.	24 And you shall know that your tent is secure; taking stock of your household, you shall miss nothing.
25 Likewise, you will know that your offspring will be manifold and your progeny will be 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 You will enter the grave with abundance, just as a crop of wheat is gathered in its time.	26 You shall approach the grave in full vigor, as a shock of grain comes in at its season.
27 Behold, this is just as we have found it, which you have heard; walk it through your mind.	27 Lo, this we have searched out; so it is! This we have heard, and you should know.