Eliphaz Continues to Chastise Job |
Job 5:1-27 Book of Job [in Smaller Chunks] |
Call now, if there are any [who] will answer you & to which of the saints will you turn? For [anger] has killed the foolish man & envy slays the [foolish ones.] I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed [the place he lived.] |
[Jeremiah 12: 1-2 You are righteous, O Lord, when I plead with you. [Still] let me talk with you [about] Your judgments. [Why] does the way of the wicked prosper?] |
[Why] are all [those] happy [who behave] very [deceitfully?] You have planted them & they have taken root. They grow & they bring forth fruit. You are near their mouth & far from their [minds.] |
They are crushed in the gate & his children are far from safety. Neither is there any to deliver them. [Psalm 109:12 Let there be [no one] to extend mercy to him & neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.] |
The hungry eat up their harvest & even take it out of the thorns & the robber swallows up their [possessions.] Although affliction [doesn't] come [out of the dirt,] neither does trouble [sprout] out of the ground. Yet man is born unto trouble, [like] the sparks [of the campfire] fly upward. |
[But as for me,] I would seek God & I would [surrender] my [case] to God; [Who] does great & marvelous things; unsearchable, without number. Who gives rain upon the earth & sends waters upon the field: To set up on high those [who are lowly & [exalts] those [who] mourn to safety. |
[God frustrates the plots] of the [devious,] so their hands can't [carry out] their [plans.] [God] takes the wise in their own craftiness & the [plots of the devious] are carried [away.] |
Darkness comes upon [them] in the daytime & grope [at noon like] in the night. But [God] saves the poor from the sword, from their [slander] & from the hand of the mighty. So, the poor have hope & the [sinful] mouth is stopped. |
[Look,] happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore, [don't] despise [when you are corrected by] the Almighty. For He makes sore & [bandages] up. [God] wounds & His hands make whole. |
He shall deliver you in 6 troubles & in 7, no evil shall touch you. [God] shall redeem you from death, in famine & from the power of the sword in war. You shall be [hidden] from the [slanderous] tongue & neither shall you be afraid of destruction, when it comes. |
You shall laugh at destruction & famine. Neither shall you be afraid of [wild animals] of the earth. For you shall be in [joined] with the stones of the field & the [animals] of the field shall be at peace with you. |
And you shall know that your [tent] shall be in peace & you shall visit [the place you reside] & shall not sin. You shall also know that your [descendants shall be many] & your offspring [shall be like] the grass of the earth. |
You shall come to your grave [at your] full age, like a [stalk] of corn [ripens in its] season. We have searched it [out] & it is so. Hear it & know it [yourself,] for your [own] good. |