2.5 KiB
Eliphaz's Response Continues
Chapter 5
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"Cry for help, but will anyone answer you? Which of the angels will help you?
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Surely resentment destroys the fool,
and jealousy kills the simple.
- I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment,
but then comes sudden disaster.
- Their children are abandoned far from help;
they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
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The hungry devour their harvest, even when it is guarded by brambles. The thirsty pant after their wealth.
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But evil does not spring from the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
- People are born for trouble
as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.
- "If I were you, I would go to God
and present my case to him.
- He does great things too marvelous to understand.
He performs countless miracles.
- He gives rain for the earth
and water for the fields.
- He gives prosperity to the poor
and protects those who suffer.
- He frustrates the plans of schemers
so the work of their hands will not succeed.
- He traps the wise in their own cleverness
so their cunning schemes are thwarted.
- They find it is dark in the daytime,
and they grope at noon as if it were night.
- He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong,
and rescues them from the clutches of the powerful.
- And so at last the poor have hope,
and the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut.
- "But consider the joy of those corrected by God!
Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty when you sin.
- For though he wounds, he also bandages.
He strikes, but his hands also heal.
- From six disasters he will rescue you;
even in the seventh, he will keep you from evil.
- He will save you from death in time of famine,
from the power of the sword in time of war.
- You will be safe from slander
and have no fear when destruction comes.
- You will laugh at destruction and famine;
wild animals will not terrify you.
- You will be at peace with the stones of the field,
and its wild animals will be at peace with you.
- You will know that your home is safe.
When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing.
- You will have many children;
your descendants will be as plentiful as grass!
- You will go to the grave at a ripe old age,
like a sheaf of grain harvested at the proper time!
- "We have studied life and found all this to be true.
Listen to my counsel, and apply it to yourself."