You can skip to local navigation, content or closing (global) navigation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 5

Chapter 5

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

and to which

15:8-10,15 Isaiah 41:1,21-23 Hebrews 12:1

the saints

4:18 15:15 Deuteronomy 33:2,3 Psalms 16:3 106:16 Ephesians 1:1

turn

or, look.

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

wrath

18:4 Jonah 4:9

the foolish

Psalms 14:1 75:4 92:6 107:17 Proverbs 1:22,23 8:5 Ecclesiastes 7:9

envy

or, indignation.

Genesis 30:1 1 Samuel 18:8,9 Romans 2:8

one

Hosea 7:11 2 Timothy 3:6

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

taking

27:8 Psalms 37:35,36 73:3-9,18-20 92:7 Jeremiah 12:1-3

cursed

Deuteronomy 27:15-26 Psalms 69:25 Acts 1:20

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

children

4:10,11 8:4 18:16-19 27:14 Exodus 20:5 Psalms 109:9-15 119:155 127:5

they are crushed

1:19 Luke 13:4,5

neither

10:7 Psalms 7:2

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

harvest

Deuteronomy 28:33,51 Judges 6:3-6 Isaiah 62:8

the thorns

Judges 6:11 2 Chronicles 33:11

the robber

1:15,17 12:6 18:9 Hosea 8:7

swalloweth

2:3 20:15 Jeremiah 51:34,44 Lamentations 2:5,16

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

affliction

or, iniquity. trouble.

34:29 Deuteronomy 32:27 1 Samuel 6:9 Psalms 90:7 Isaiah 45:7 Lamentations 3:38 Amos 3:6

spring out

Hosea 10:4 Hebrews 12:15

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

man

14:1 Genesis 3:17-19 Psalms 90:8,9 1 Corinthians 10:13

trouble

or, labour.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 2:22 5:15-17

sparks fly upward

Heb. sons of the burning coal lift up to fly.

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

seek

8:5 22:21,27 Genesis 32:7-12 2 Chronicles 33:12,13 Psalms 50:15 77:1,2 Jonah 2:1-7

unto God

Psalms 37:5 2 Timothy 1:12 1 Peter 2:23 4:19

Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

doeth

9:10 11:7-9 37:5 Psalms 40:5 72:18 86:10 Romans 11:33

unsearchable

Heb. there is no search.

Isaiah 40:28

marvellous

26:5-14

without number

Heb. till there be no number.

Psalms 40:5 139:18

Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

giveth

28:26 Psalms 65:9-11 147:8 Jeremiah 5:24 10:13 14:22 Amos 4:7 Acts 14:17

fields

Heb. outplaces.

38:26-28

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

set up

1 Samuel 2:7,8 Psalms 91:14 107:41 Ezekiel 17:24 Luke 1:52,53

those

Luke 6:21 James 1:9 4:6-10 1 Peter 5:10

exalted

Deuteronomy 33:27 1 Peter 1:3

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

disappointeth

12:16,17 Nehemiah 4:15 Psalms 33:10,11 37:17 Proverbs 21:30 Isaiah 8:10 19:3

their hands

Psalms 21:11 Isaiah 37:36 Acts 12:11 23:12-22

their enterprise

or, anything.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

taketh

2 Samuel 15:31,34 17:23 Esther 6:4-11 7:10 9:25 Psalms 7:15,16 9:15,16 Psalms 35:7,8 Luke 1:51 1 Corinthians 1:19,20

of the froword

Psalms 18:26 Proverbs 3:32

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

meet with

or, run into. darkness.

12:25 Deuteronomy 28:29 Proverbs 4:19 Isaiah 59:10 Amos 8:9

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

he saveth

Psalms 10:14,17 35:10 72:4,12,13 107:41 109:31 140:12

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

the poor

1 Samuel 2:8,9 Psalms 9:18 Isaiah 14:32 Zechariah 9:12

and

Exodus 11:7 Psalms 63:11 107:42 Romans 3:19

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

happy

Psalms 94:12 Proverbs 3:11,12 Jeremiah 31:18 Hebrews 12:5-11 James 1:12 5:11 Revelation 3:19

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Deuteronomy 32:39 1 Samuel 2:6 Psalms 147:3 Isaiah 30:26

He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

deliver thee

Psalms 34:19 91:3-7 Proverbs 24:16 1 Corinthians 10:13 2 Corinthians 1:8 2 Peter 2:9

no evil

Psalms 91:7-10

In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

famine

Genesis 45:7 1 Kings 17:6 Psalms 33:19 Proverbs 10:3 Isaiah 33:16 Habakkuk 3:17

redeem

Psalms 49:7 Hosea 13:14

in war

Psalms 27:3 Matthew 24:6

the power

Heb. hands.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

be hid

Psalms 31:20 55:21 57:4 Proverbs 12:18 Isaiah 54:17 Jeremiah 18:18 James 3:5-8

from the scourge

or, when the tongue scourgeth. neither.

Psalms 91:5-7

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

laugh

2 Kings 19:21

afraid

Isaiah 35:9 65:25 Ezekiel 34:25

For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

thou

Psalms 91:12,13 Hosea 2:18 Romans 8:38,39

beasts

Leviticus 26:6 Ezekiel 14:15,16 Isaiah 11:9 Daniel 6:22

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

thou shalt know

18:6,15,21 21:7-9 1 Samuel 30:3 Isaiah 4:5,6

thy tabernacle, etc

or, peace is thy tabernacle.

Psalms 25:13

thou shalt visit

Deuteronomy 28:6 Psalms 91:10 121:7,8

sin

or, err.

Psalms 107:4,40

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

thy seed

42:13-16 Genesis 15:5 Leviticus 26:9 Deuteronomy 28:4 Psalms 112:2 127:3-5 128:3-6

great

or, much. as the grass.

Psalms 72:16

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

in a full age

42:16,17 Genesis 15:15 25:8 Psalms 91:16 Proverbs 9:11 10:27

cometh

Heb. ascendeth.

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

we have searched

8:8-10 12:2 15:9,10,17 32:11,12 Psalms 111:2 Proverbs 2:3-5

for thy good

Heb. for thyself.

22:2 Deuteronomy 10:13 Proverbs 9:12