Job 5
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 5, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
1
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? {turn: or, look?}
Job 5:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. {envy: or, indignation}
Job 5:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither {is there} any to deliver {them}.
Job 5:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 5:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
6
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; {affliction: or, iniquity}
Job 5:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. {trouble: or, labour} {sparks...: Heb. the sons of the burning coal lift up to fly}
Job 5:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Job 5:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: {unsearchable: Heb. there is no search} {without...: Heb. till there be no number}
Job 5:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
10
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: {fields: Heb. outplaces}
Job 5:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Job 5:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform {their} enterprise. {their enterprise: or, any thing}
Job 5:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 5:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. {meet...: or, run into}
Job 5:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
15
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
16
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job 5:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
17
Behold, happy {is} the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 5:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Job 5:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
19
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job 5:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
20
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. {power: Heb. hands}
Job 5:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
21
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. {from...: or, when the tongue scourgeth}
Job 5:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 5:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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.
Job 5:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
24
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle {shall be} in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. {thy tabernacle...: or, peace is thy tabernacle} {sin: or, err}
Job 5:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed {shall be} great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. {great: or, much}
Job 5:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt come to {thy} grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. {cometh in: Heb. ascendeth}
Job 5:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lo this, we have searched it, so it {is}; hear it, and know thou {it} for thy good. {for...: Heb. for thyself}
Job 5:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.