Job 5:8–20

⁸However, if I were you, I would appeal to God

and lay my cause before Him—

⁹the One who does great and unsearchable things,

wonders without number.

¹⁰He gives rain to the earth

and sends water upon the fields.

¹¹He sets the lowly on high,

so that mourners are lifted to safety.

¹²He thwarts the schemes of the crafty,

so that their hands find no success.

¹³He catches the wise in their craftiness,^b

and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

¹⁴They encounter darkness by day

and grope at noon as in the night.

¹⁵He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth

and from the clutches of the powerful.

¹⁶So the poor have hope,

and injustice shuts its mouth.

¹⁷Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects;

so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.^c

¹⁸For He wounds, but He also binds;

He strikes, but His hands also heal.

¹⁹He will rescue you from six calamities;

no harm will touch you in seven.

²⁰In famine He will redeem you from death,

and in battle from the stroke of the sword.