Verse 2
Job 5:2
Geneva Bible
2
Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽי לֶֽ֭/אֱוִיל יַהֲרָג כָּ֑עַשׂ וּ֝/פֹתֶ֗ה תָּמִ֥ית קִנְאָֽה
English Translation
For a fool causes anger, and a seductive person will kill zeal.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 5 Context
1
Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?
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Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.
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I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,
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His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall de...
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The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirs...
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For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.
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But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.
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But I would inquire at God (Elohim), and turne my talke vnto God (Elohim):
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Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.
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10
He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
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And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.
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He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they do...
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He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
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14
They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
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But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,
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So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.
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Beholde, blessed is the man whome God (Elohim) correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising...
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18
For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.
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19
He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.
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20
In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.
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21
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when i...
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But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.
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For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at...
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24
And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation,...
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25
Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth...
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Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.
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Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.
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