Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those Who Seek Him 1 UDB "Job, no one will stop you from calling out for someone to help you, but I am certain that no angel will come to you! BSB BSB: “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 UDB Foolish people die because they are resentful; people whom others easily deceive—these people die because they envy others. BSB BSB: For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
3 UDB I have seen foolish people who seemed to be successful, but suddenly they experienced disaster because I cursed their home. BSB BSB: I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
4 UDB Their sons are never safe; they always lose to their opponents in court, because there is no one to defend them. BSB BSB: His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
5 UDB Hungry people steal the crops that foolish people harvest; they even steal the crops that grow among thorns, and greedy people take away the wealth of those foolish people. BSB BSB: The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
6 UDB But it is not the farmland that makes bad things happen; troubles do not grow up from the ground like plants. BSB BSB: For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
7 UDB People make trouble for themselves from the time that they are born; this is as certain as the fact that sparks shoot up from a fire. BSB BSB: Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
8 UDB If I were suffering like you are, I would ask God for help and tell him what I am complaining about. BSB BSB: However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
9 UDB He does great things, things that we cannot understand; we cannot even count the marvelous things that he does. BSB BSB: the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
10 UDB He sends rain on the ground; he makes it rain on our fields. BSB BSB: He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
11 UDB He defends those who are humble, and puts those who mourn into places where they are safe. BSB BSB: He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
12 UDB He causes crafty people to not be able to do what they plan to do, with the result that they achieve nothing. BSB BSB: He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
13 UDB The people who think they are wise—he makes their own traps catch them; the result is that they do not succeed. BSB BSB: He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
14 UDB It is as though even in the daytime they were living in darkness and were groping around trying to find the road at noontime like people do at night. BSB BSB: They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
15 UDB But God saves helpless people from the wicked who say evil things about them; he saves poor people from powerful people harming them. BSB BSB: He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
16 UDB So poor people confidently expect that good things will happen to them; but God stops wicked people from saying evil things. BSB BSB: So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
17 UDB But those whom God corrects are fortunate; so do not despise it when God, who can do anything, disciplines you. BSB BSB: Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
18 UDB He wounds people, but then he puts bandages on those wounds; he hurts people, but he also heals them. BSB BSB: For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
19 UDB He will rescue you many times from your troubles, with the result that nothing evil will happen to you. BSB BSB: He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
20 UDB When there is little food to eat, he will not allow you to die, and when there is a war, your enemies will not kill you. BSB BSB: In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
21 UDB God will protect you when people say false, evil things about you; you will not be afraid when many things around you perish. BSB BSB: You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.
22 UDB You will be able to laugh when that happens and when there is nothing to eat, and you will not be afraid of wild animals. BSB BSB: You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
23 UDB You will not worry about having big rocks in your fields that will make plowing difficult, and you will not worry that wild animals might attack 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 UDB You will know that things will go well for you in your home; when you look at your livestock, you will see that they are all there. BSB BSB: You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
25 UDB You will be certain that you will have many descendants, who will be as numerous as blades of grass. BSB BSB: You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.
26 UDB You will become very old before you die, like sheaves of grain continue to grow until it is time to harvest and thresh them. BSB BSB: You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
27 UDB My friends and I have thought carefully about these things, and we know that they are true, so pay attention to what I have said!" BSB BSB: Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”
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