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Job 5:11-18 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

11. to set the lowly on high, and those mourning are lifted to safety.

12. He is frustrating the devices of the crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.

13. He is capturing the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed.

14. In the daytime they meet with darkness, and they grope at noon as in the night.

15. And he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the strong.

16. So there is hope for the powerless, and wickedness shuts its mouth.

17. “Look, happy is the human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

18. for he himself wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.

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