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Job 5:13

Verse 13 of 27. The 5th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

9who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

15But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.