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Job Chapter 5 - Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
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- Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
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- Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
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- I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
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- His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
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- Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
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- Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
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- Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
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- Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
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- Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
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- Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
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- Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
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- Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
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- Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
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- They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
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- But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
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- And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.
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- Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:
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- For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
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- In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
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- In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
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- Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.
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- In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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- But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee.
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- And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.
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- Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
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- Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
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- Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.
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