---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 5
verse_count: 27
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 5, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 5

*Eliphaz' reproof continued.*

**1** Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
**2** For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
**3** I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
**4** His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
**5** Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
**6** Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
**7** Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
**8** I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause;
**9** Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number;
**10** Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields;
**11** To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
**12** He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
**13** He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
**14** They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
**15** But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
**16** So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
**17** Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty;
**18** For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
**19** He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
**20** In famine he shall redeem thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.
**21** Thou shalt be hid from the scourge- of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
**22** At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
**23** For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
**24** And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
**25** Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
**26** Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
**27** Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.