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5:1  1, 2 Eliphaz showeth the difference between the children of God and the wicked. 3 The fall of the wicked. 9 God’s power who destroyeth the wicked, and delivereth his. Call now, if any will answer thee, and to which of the Saints wilt thou turn?
5:2  Doubtless anger killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the idiot.
5:3  I have seen the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,
5:4  His children shall be far from salvation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliver them.
5:5  The hungry shall eat up his harvest: yea, they shall take it from among the thorns, and the thirsty shall drink up their substance.
5:6  For misery cometh not forth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.
5:7  But man is born unto travail, as the sparks fly upward.
5:8  But I would inquire at God, and turn my talk unto God:
5:9  Which doeth great things, and unsearchable, and marvelous things without number.
5:10  He giveth rain upon the earth, and poureth water upon the streets,
5:11  And setteth up on high them that be low, that the sorrowful may be exalted to salvation.
5:12  He scattereth the devices of the crafty: so that their hands cannot accomplish that which they do enterprise.
5:13  He taketh the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
5:14  They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday, as in the night.
5:15  But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the violent man,
5:16  So that the poor hath his hope, but iniquity shall stop her mouth.
5:17  Behold, blessed is the man whom God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almighty.
5:18  For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it up: he smiteth, and his hands make whole.
5:19  He shall deliver thee in six troubles, and in the seventh the evil shall not touch thee.
5:20  In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle from the power of the sword.
5:21  Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
5:22  But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraid of the beast of the earth.
5:23  For the stones of the field shall be in league with thee, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
5:24  And thou shalt know, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visit thine habitation, and shalt not sin.
5:25  Thou shalt perceive also that thy seed shall be great, and thy posterity as the grass of the earth.
5:26  Thou shalt go to thy grave in a full age, as a rick of corn cometh in due season into the barn.
5:27  Lo, thus have we inquired of it, and so it is: hear this and know it for thyself.