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Job Chapter 5

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Job

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In this chapter God confronts Job, accusing him of not repenting and questioning his prolonged suffering. The text describes God’s judgment and promises that He will bring Job back to his former place. It emphasizes God’s sovereignty and the idea that suffering is a test of faith.

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(1) Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
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Job 15:8Job 15:9Job 15:10Job 15:15Isaiah 41:1Isaiah 41:21Isaiah 41:22Isaiah 41:23Hebrews 12:1Job 4:18Deuteronomy 33:2Deuteronomy 33:3

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II Kings 8:12Job 13:22Job 14:15Psalms 86:7Exodus 15:26I Kings 12:7

(2) For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
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Job 18:4Jonah 4:9Psalms 14:1Psalms 75:4Psalms 92:6Psalms 107:17Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 1:23Proverbs 8:5Ecclesiastes 7:9Genesis 30:1I Samuel 18:8

(3) I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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Job 27:8Psalms 37:35Psalms 37:36Psalms 73:3Psalms 73:4Psalms 73:5Psalms 73:6Psalms 73:7Psalms 73:8Psalms 73:9Psalms 73:18Psalms 73:19

(4) His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
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Job 4:10Job 4:11Job 8:4Job 18:16Job 18:17Job 18:18Job 18:19Job 27:14Exodus 20:5Psalms 109:9Psalms 109:10Psalms 109:11

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 40:6Ezekiel 40:27

(5) Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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Deuteronomy 28:33Deuteronomy 28:51Judges 6:3Judges 6:4Judges 6:5Judges 6:6Isaiah 62:8Judges 6:11II Chronicles 33:11Job 1:15Job 1:17Job 12:6

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Romans 14:3Romans 14:6I Samuel 12:3Isaiah 6:13Philippians 3:19Luke 10:2

(6) Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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Job 34:29Deuteronomy 32:27I Samuel 6:9Psalms 90:7Isaiah 45:7Lamentations 3:38Amos 3:6Hosea 10:4Hebrews 12:15

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Isaiah 29:4Genesis 3:19Deuteronomy 9:21II Samuel 14:14Isaiah 28:24Lamentations 2:10

(7) Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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Job 14:1Genesis 3:17Genesis 3:18Genesis 3:19Psalms 90:8Psalms 90:9I Corinthians 10:13Ecclesiastes 1:8Ecclesiastes 2:22Ecclesiastes 5:15Ecclesiastes 5:16Ecclesiastes 5:17

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Ezekiel 41:7

(8) I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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Job 8:5Job 22:21Job 22:27Genesis 32:7Genesis 32:8Genesis 32:9Genesis 32:10Genesis 32:11Genesis 32:12II Chronicles 33:12II Chronicles 33:13Psalms 50:15

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Zephaniah 2:3Romans 2:22

(9) Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
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Job 9:10Job 11:7Job 11:8Job 11:9Job 37:5Psalms 40:5Psalms 72:18Psalms 86:10Romans 11:33Isaiah 40:28Job 26:5Job 26:6

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Revelation 13:18

(10) Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
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Job 28:26Psalms 65:9Psalms 65:10Psalms 65:11Psalms 147:8Jeremiah 5:24Jeremiah 10:13Jeremiah 14:22Amos 4:7Acts 14:17Job 38:26Job 38:27

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Joel 2:23Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4Deuteronomy 11:14Amos 4:7

(11) To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
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I Samuel 2:7I Samuel 2:8Psalms 91:14Psalms 107:41Ezekiel 17:24Luke 1:52Luke 1:53Luke 6:21James 1:9James 4:6James 4:7James 4:8

(12) He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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Job 12:16Job 12:17Nehemiah 4:15Psalms 33:10Psalms 33:11Psalms 37:17Proverbs 21:30Isaiah 8:10Isaiah 19:3Psalms 21:11Isaiah 37:36Acts 12:11

(13) He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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II Samuel 15:31II Samuel 15:34II Samuel 17:23Esther 6:4Esther 6:5Esther 6:6Esther 6:7Esther 6:8Esther 6:9Esther 6:10Esther 6:11Esther 7:10

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Isaiah 19:11I Corinthians 3:19Esther 2:6II Samuel 17:14

(14) They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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Job 12:25Deuteronomy 28:29Proverbs 4:19Isaiah 59:10Amos 8:9

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Isaiah 59:10Exodus 14:20Deuteronomy 28:29Job 10:22Psalms 139:12Matthew 6:23

(15) But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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Psalms 10:14Psalms 10:17Psalms 35:10Psalms 72:4Psalms 72:12Psalms 72:13Psalms 107:41Psalms 109:31Psalms 140:12

(16) So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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I Samuel 2:8I Samuel 2:9Psalms 9:18Isaiah 14:32Zechariah 9:12Exodus 11:7Psalms 63:11Psalms 107:42Romans 3:19

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Romans 8:24I Corinthians 9:10

(17) Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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Psalms 94:12Proverbs 3:11Proverbs 3:12Jeremiah 31:18Hebrews 12:5Hebrews 12:6Hebrews 12:7Hebrews 12:8Hebrews 12:9Hebrews 12:10Hebrews 12:11James 1:12

(18) For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
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Deuteronomy 32:39I Samuel 2:6Psalms 147:3Isaiah 30:26

(19) He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
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Psalms 34:19Psalms 91:3Psalms 91:4Psalms 91:5Psalms 91:6Psalms 91:7Proverbs 24:16I Corinthians 10:13II Corinthians 1:8II Peter 2:9Psalms 91:8Psalms 91:9

(20) In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
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Genesis 45:7I Kings 17:6Psalms 33:19Proverbs 10:3Isaiah 33:16Habakkuk 3:17Psalms 49:7Hosea 13:14Psalms 27:3Matthew 24:6

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Ruth 4:4Ecclesiastes 8:8Exodus 13:13Exodus 34:20Leviticus 25:49Ruth 4:6

(21) Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
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Psalms 31:20Psalms 55:21Psalms 57:4Proverbs 12:18Isaiah 54:17Jeremiah 18:18James 3:5James 3:6James 3:7James 3:8Psalms 91:5Psalms 91:6

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Proverbs 1:27Psalms 35:8Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6Jeremiah 46:20

(22) At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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II Kings 19:21Isaiah 35:9Isaiah 65:25Ezekiel 34:25

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6Ezekiel 5:16

(23) For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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Psalms 91:12Psalms 91:13Hosea 2:18Romans 8:38Romans 8:39Leviticus 26:6Ezekiel 14:15Ezekiel 14:16Isaiah 11:9Daniel 6:22

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Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5Daniel 4:23I Chronicles 29:2Genesis 2:5

(24) And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
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Job 18:6Job 18:15Job 18:21Job 21:7Job 21:8Job 21:9I Samuel 30:3Isaiah 4:5Isaiah 4:6Psalms 25:13Deuteronomy 28:6Psalms 91:10

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Exodus 33:7Numbers 1:50Numbers 3:25Numbers 4:25Numbers 9:15

(25) Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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Job 42:13Job 42:14Job 42:15Job 42:16Genesis 15:5Leviticus 26:9Deuteronomy 28:4Psalms 112:2Psalms 127:3Psalms 127:4Psalms 127:5Psalms 128:3

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Genesis 1:11Genesis 1:12I Peter 1:24Genesis 26:4Isaiah 61:9Jeremiah 33:26

(26) Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
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Job 42:16Job 42:17Genesis 15:15Genesis 25:8Psalms 91:16Proverbs 9:11Proverbs 10:27

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Leviticus 2:14Proverbs 1:27

(27) Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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Job 8:8Job 8:9Job 8:10Job 12:2Job 15:9Job 15:10Job 15:17Job 32:11Job 32:12Psalms 111:2Proverbs 2:3Proverbs 2:4

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