Job:5:6-27

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* For affliction does not come forth from the dust , nor does trouble spring out of the ground , * but man is born to trouble , as the sparks fly upward . * But as for me , I would seek to God . And to God I would commit my cause , * who does great things and unsearchable , marvelous things without number , * who gives rain upon the earth , and sends waters upon the fields , * so that he sets up on high those who are low , and those who mourn are exalted to safety . * He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise . * He takes the wise in their own craftiness , and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong . * They meet with darkness in the daytime , and grope at noonday as in the night . * But he saves from the sword of their mouth , even the needy from the hand of the mighty . * So a poor man has hope , and iniquity stops her mouth . * Behold , happy is the man whom God corrects . Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty . * For he injures , and binds up . He wounds , and his hands make whole . * He will deliver thee in six troubles . Yea , in seven there shall no evil touch thee . * In famine he will redeem thee from death , and in war from the power of the sword . * Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue . Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes . * At destruction and dearth thou shall laugh , nor shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth . * For thou shall be in league with the stones of the field , and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee . * And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace , and thou shall visit thy fold , and shall miss nothing . * Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great , and thine offspring as the grass of the earth . * Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age , like a shock of grain comes in its season . * Lo this , we have searched it , so it is . Hear it , and know thou it for thy good .

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