What does Job 5:8-17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Which doeth great things and unsearchable;d marvellous things without number:
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:e
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
They meetf with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and 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: