Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those Who Seek Him 1 AKJV Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn? BSB BSB: “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 AKJV For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one. BSB BSB: For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
3 AKJV I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. BSB BSB: I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
4 AKJV His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. BSB BSB: His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
5 AKJV Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance. BSB BSB: The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
6 AKJV Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground; BSB BSB: For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
7 AKJV Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. BSB BSB: Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
8 AKJV I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause: BSB BSB: However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
9 AKJV Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number: BSB BSB: the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
10 AKJV Who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields: BSB BSB: He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
11 AKJV To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. BSB BSB: He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
12 AKJV He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. BSB BSB: He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
13 AKJV He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the fraudulent is carried headlong. BSB BSB: He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
14 AKJV They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night. BSB BSB: They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
15 AKJV But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. BSB BSB: He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
16 AKJV So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth. BSB BSB: So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
17 AKJV Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty: BSB BSB: Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
18 AKJV For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole. BSB BSB: For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
19 AKJV He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you. BSB BSB: He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
20 AKJV In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword. BSB BSB: In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
21 AKJV You shall be hid from the whip of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes. BSB BSB: You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.
22 AKJV At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth. BSB BSB: You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
23 AKJV For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. BSB BSB: For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
24 AKJV And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin. BSB BSB: You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
25 AKJV You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth. BSB BSB: You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.
26 AKJV You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season. BSB BSB: You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
27 AKJV See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good. BSB BSB: Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”
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