Job 5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Job 5Job Is Corrected by God

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and the thirsty pant after their wealth.

6For misery does not come from the earth,

nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

7 fly upward.

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18 Isa 30.26 For he wounds, but he binds up;

he strikes, but his hands heal.

19 Ps 34.19; 91.10 He will deliver you from six troubles;

in seven no harm shall touch you.

20 Ps 33.19; 144.10 In famine he will redeem you from death

and in war from the power of the sword.

21 Ps 31.20; 91.5, 6 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue

and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

22 Ps 91.13; Ezek 34.25 At destruction and famine you shall laugh

and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.

23 Ps 91.12; Isa 11.6–9 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,

and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.

24 Job 8.6; 21.9 You shall know that your tent is safe;

you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.

25 Ps 72.16; 112.2 You shall know that your descendants will be many

and your offspring like the grass of the earth.

26 Gen 15.15; Prov 9.11 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,

as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.

27See, we have searched this out; it is true.

Hear, and know it for yourself.”