Job 第5章
1“Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of 5:1 ch. 15:15; Ps. 89:5, 7; Zech. 14:5the holy ones will you turn?
2Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.
but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
4His children are 5:4 [Ps. 119:155] far from safety;
they are crushed in 5:4 ch. 29:7; Ps. 127:5; Prov. 22:22; [Josh. 20:4; Amos 5:12]; See Ruth 4:1the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.
5The hungry eat his harvest,
and he takes it even out of thorns,5:5 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
and the thirsty pant5:5 Aquila, Symmachus, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew could be read as and the snare pants after his5:5 Hebrew their wealth.
6For affliction does not come from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
7but man is 5:7 ch. 14:1; Gen. 3:17-19; Eccles. 2:23born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.
8“As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause,
5:9 [ch. 10:16]marvelous things without number:
10he gives 5:10 Ps. 65:9, 10; 147:8; Jer. 5:24; 14:22; Acts 14:17; [Ps. 104:10, 13; Matt. 5:45]rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;
11he 5:11 1 Sam. 2:7; [Ps. 113:7]sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
so that their hands achieve no success.
13He 5:13 Cited 1 Cor. 3:19; [Ps. 9:15, 16]catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
14They meet with darkness in the daytime
and 5:14 ch. 12:25; Deut. 28:29; [Isa. 59:10]grope at noonday as in the night.
and from the hand of the mighty.
16So the poor have hope,
and 5:16 Ps. 107:42; [Ps. 63:11]injustice shuts her mouth.
17“Behold, 5:17 Ps. 94:12; [James 1:12] blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore 5:17 Prov. 3:11; Heb. 12:5; Rev. 3:19despise not the discipline of the 5:17 Gen. 17:1Almighty.
18For he wounds, but he 5:18 Isa. 30:26; 61:1; Hos. 6:1binds up;
he 5:18 [Deut. 32:39]shatters, but his hands heal.
19He will 5:19 Ps. 34:19; 91:3; 1 Cor. 10:13deliver you from six troubles;
in seven no 5:19 Ps. 91:10evil5:19 Or disaster shall touch you.
and in war from the power of the sword.
and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
22At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
23For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,
and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
and your descendants as 5:25 Ps. 72:16the grass of the earth.
26You shall come to your grave in 5:26 [Gen. 15:15; 25:8; 35:29; Prov. 9:11; 10:27]ripe old age,
like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
Hear, and know it for your good.”5:27 Hebrew for yourself
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