Job 5

King James Version · 27 verses · 573 cross-references linking it to 311 other chapters

1. 1Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?13 cross-references: Job 15:15, Job 15:8–10, Job 4:18, Hebrews 12:1, Isaiah 41:21–23
2. 2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.35 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 7:9, Hosea 7:11, Proverbs 12:16, Psalms 75:4, Job 18:4
3. 3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.22 cross-references: Psalms 73:18–20, Psalms 37:35–36, Psalms 92:7, Job 27:8, Jeremiah 12:1–3
4. 4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.23 cross-references: Psalms 127:5, Psalms 119:155, Job 1:19, Psalms 7:2, Job 10:7
5. 5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.24 cross-references: Lamentations 2:16, Hosea 8:7, Jeremiah 51:44, Jeremiah 51:34, Deuteronomy 28:33
6. 6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;12 cross-references: Isaiah 45:7, 1 Samuel 6:9, Psalms 90:7, Hebrews 12:15, Lamentations 3:38
7. 7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.12 cross-references: Job 14:1, Genesis 3:17–19, Ecclesiastes 5:15–17, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Ecclesiastes 1:8
8. 8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:23 cross-references: Psalms 50:15, Job 22:21, Psalms 37:5, 2 Chronicles 33:12–13, 1 Peter 4:19
9. 9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:34 cross-references: Psalms 40:5, Job 9:10, Psalms 72:18, Psalms 86:10, Job 37:5
10. 10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:21 cross-references: Acts 14:17, Jeremiah 5:24, Jeremiah 14:22, Psalms 147:8, Job 36:28
11. 11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.20 cross-references: 1 Samuel 2:7–8, Luke 1:52–53, Psalms 113:7, Deuteronomy 33:27, Psalms 107:41
12. 12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.49 cross-references: Psalms 33:10–11, Psalms 21:11, Isaiah 8:10, Proverbs 21:30, Psalms 37:17
13. 13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.30 cross-references: Psalms 9:15–16, 1 Corinthians 3:19, Luke 1:51, 1 Corinthians 1:19–20, Psalms 18:26
14. 14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.16 cross-references: Job 12:25, Deuteronomy 28:29, Isaiah 59:10, Proverbs 4:19, Amos 8:9
15. 15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.20 cross-references: Psalms 35:10, Job 4:10, Psalms 140:12, Psalms 10:17, Psalms 72:4
16. 16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.15 cross-references: Psalms 107:42, 1 Samuel 2:8–9, Psalms 63:11, Isaiah 14:32, Romans 3:19
17. 17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:27 cross-references: James 1:12, Psalms 94:12, Proverbs 3:11–12, Revelation 3:19, Hebrews 12:5–11
18. 18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.24 cross-references: Hosea 6:1, Deuteronomy 32:39, Isaiah 30:26, Psalms 147:3, 1 Samuel 2:6
19. 19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.30 cross-references: Psalms 34:19, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Psalms 91:3–10, Proverbs 24:16, 2 Peter 2:9
20. 20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.20 cross-references: Psalms 33:19, Hosea 13:14, Genesis 45:7, 1 Kings 17:6, Proverbs 10:3
21. 21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.12 cross-references: Psalms 31:20, Psalms 91:5–7, Jeremiah 18:18, Psalms 55:21, Proverbs 12:18
22. 22At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.10 cross-references: Ezekiel 34:25, Isaiah 35:9, Psalms 91:13, Hosea 2:18, Isaiah 65:25
23. 23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.15 cross-references: Leviticus 26:6, Hosea 2:18, Daniel 6:22, Isaiah 11:6–9, Psalms 91:12–13
24. 24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.17 cross-references: Psalms 121:7–8, Psalms 91:10, Isaiah 4:5–6, Job 18:6, Job 8:6
25. 25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.10 cross-references: Psalms 112:2, Psalms 72:16, Genesis 15:5, Deuteronomy 28:4, Job 42:13–16
26. 26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.24 cross-references: Proverbs 9:11, Job 42:16–17, Genesis 15:15, Psalms 91:16, Proverbs 10:27
27. 27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.15 cross-references: Psalms 111:2, Job 32:11–12, Proverbs 9:12, Deuteronomy 10:13, Proverbs 2:3–5

Explained connections

• He catches the wise in their craftiness Job 5:13 and 1 Corinthians 3:19

  Eliphaz, one of Job's friends, says God traps the crafty in their own schemes. Paul quotes it — the only clear New Testament quotation of Job — to puncture worldly wisdom.

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