Job 5:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

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  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. 19 How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors. 20 As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant, 36 And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!
  • Ps 69:25 : 25 Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no dweller.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, 4 And their might `is' firm. 5 In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. 6 Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. 7 Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; 8 They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. 9 They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
  • Deut 27:15-26 : 15 `Cursed `is' the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put `it' in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen. 16 `Cursed `is' He who is making light of his father and his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 17 `Cursed `is' he who is removing his neighbour's border, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 18 `Cursed `is' he who is causing the blind to err in the way, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 19 `Cursed `is' he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 20 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 21 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with any beast, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 22 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 23 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 24 `Cursed `is' he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 25 `Cursed `is' he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, -- and all the people have said, Amen. 26 `Cursed `is' he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
  • Job 24:18 : 18 Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what `is' the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!
  • Jer 12:1-3 : 1 Righteous `art' Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers. 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root, They go on, yea, they have made fruit, Near `art' Thou in their mouth, And far off from their reins. 3 And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known me, Thou seest me, and hast tried my heart with Thee, Draw them away as sheep to slaughter, And separate them for a day of slaughter.
  • Acts 1:20 : 20 for it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let another take.

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  • 2For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

  • 3The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

  • 35I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

  • Job 5:4-5
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    4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

    5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

  • 3The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

  • 33The curse of Jehovah `is' in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.

  • 15Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.

  • 16From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

  • 25A provocation to his father `is' a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

  • 5A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

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    17Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

    18The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned `with' knowledge.

  • 32For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

  • 13There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

  • 8As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

  • 29Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.

  • 19See do the righteous and they rejoice, And the innocent mocketh at them,

  • 5There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler,

  • 7And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

  • 20Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.

  • 3The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.

  • 15Desolations `are' upon them, They go down `to' Sheol -- alive, For wickedness `is' in their dwelling, in their midst.

  • 6And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him.

  • 15Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

  • 3In the mouth of a fool `is' a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.

  • 13Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

  • 34A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

  • 12The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.

  • 8Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

  • 5Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.

  • 30Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.

  • 21Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.

  • 16In the multiplying of the wicked transgression multiplieth, And the righteous on their fall do look.

  • 18Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

  • 32And I see -- I -- I do set my heart, I have seen -- I have received instruction,

  • 12The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

  • 21Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth `his' going.

  • 23To execute inventions `is' as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

  • 15A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

  • 21An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

  • 11The house of the wicked is destroyed, And the tent of the upright flourisheth.

  • 22For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

  • 5Thorns -- snares `are' in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

  • 6And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

  • 14With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

  • 15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

  • 5A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

  • 3The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

  • 33In the heart of the intelligent wisdom doth rest. And in the midst of fools it is known.