Job 5:3-13 (Young's Literal Translation)
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I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
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Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
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Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
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For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
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For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
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Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
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Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.
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Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
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To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
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Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
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Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
Young's Literal Translation is in the public domain. (Young's Literal Translation - The Bible Online)
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