Job:5:6-27

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* For affliction cometh not from the dust , Nor doth trouble spring up from the ground ; * Behold , man is born to trouble , As the sparks fly upward . * I would look to God , And to God would I commit my cause , * Who doeth great things and unsearchable ; Yea , marvellous things without number ; * Who giveth rain upon the earth , And sendeth water upon the fields ; * Who placeth the lowly in high places , And restoreth the afflicted to prosperity ; * Who disappointeth the devices of the crafty , So that their hands cannot perform their enterprises ; * Who taketh the wise in their own craftiness , And bringeth to nought the counsel of the artful . * They meet with darkness in the daytime ; They grope at noon as if it were night . * So he saveth the persecuted from their mouth ; The oppressed from the hand of the mighty . * So the poor hath hope , And iniquity stoppeth her mouth . * Behold , happy is the man whom God correcteth ; Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty . * For he bruiseth , and bindeth up ; He woundeth , and his hands make whole . * In six troubles will he deliver thee ; Yea , in seven shall no evil touch thee . * In famine he will redeem thee from death , And in war from the power of the sword . * Thou shalt be safe from the scourge of the tongue , And shalt not be afraid of destruction , when it cometh . * At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh , And of the wild beasts of the land shalt thou not be afraid . * For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field ; Yea , the beasts of the forest shall be at peace with thee . * Thou shalt find that thy tent is in peace ; Thou shalt visit thy dwelling , and not be disappointed . * Thou shalt see thy descendants numerous , And thine offspring as the grass of the earth . * Thou shalt come to thy grave in full age , As a shock of corn gathered in its season . * Lo ! this we have searched out ; so it is : Hear it , and lay it up in thy mind !

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