5:1 But call, if any one will hearken to
thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.
5:2 For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone
astray.
5:3 And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation
was devoured.
5:4 Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the
doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.
5:5 For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be
delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.
5:6 For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble
spring out of the mountains:
5:7 yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the
high places.
5:8 Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the
sovereign of all;
5:9 who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and
marvelous, of which there is no number:
5:10 who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
5:11 who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
5:12 frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not
perform the truth:
5:13 who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the
crafty
5:14 In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the
noon-day even as in the night:
5:15 and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of
the mighty.
5:16 And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
5:17 But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not
thou the chastening of the Almighty.
5:18 for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he
smites, and his hands heal.
5:19 Six time he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh
harm shall not touch thee.
5:20 In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free
thee from the power of the sword.
5:21 He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not
be afraid of coming evils.
5:22 Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not
be afraid of wild beasts.
5:23 For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
5:24 Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the
provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.
5:25 And thou shalt know that thy seed [shall be] abundant; and thy children
shall be like the herbage of the field.
5:26 And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season,
or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.
5:27 Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have
heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything [wrong]. |
5:1 Call now, if there be any that will
answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his
habitation.
5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate,
neither is there any to deliver them.
5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the
thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
5:6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble
spring out of the ground;
5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
5:8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
5:9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without
number:
5:10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
5:11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be
exalted to safety.
5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot
perform their enterprise.
5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the
froward is carried headlong.
5:14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in
the night.
5:15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the
hand of the mighty.
5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not
thou the chastening of the Almighty:
5:18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make
whole.
5:19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no
evil touch thee.
5:20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of
the sword.
5:21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be
afraid of destruction when it cometh.
5:22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be
afraid of the beasts of the earth.
5:23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the
beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
5:24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou
shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring
as the grass of the earth.
5:26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn
cometh in in his season.
5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for
thy good. |