Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 5:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
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Role in This Section
Job 5:1 opens the thought unit with the words “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou….” Eliphaz presses the unit's question through “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee”, a line that belongs to Eliphaz Warns that Resentment Destroys the Fool.
Read It With
- Job 5:1–5:5
Read Job 5:1 with 5:1–5:5. Read alone, “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Eliphaz challenges Job to find a heavenly answer and recounts seeing a fool's apparent root collapse with harm reaching the household.
Why It Needs Context
Job 5:1 depends on 5:1–5:5; isolating “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Eliphaz and “Eliphaz Warns that Resentment Destroys the Fool.”
Read Job 5:1–5 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 5:1–5:5 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Eliphaz Warns that Resentment Destroys the Fool.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
Verse 2. 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Verse 3. 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Verse 4. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Verse 5. 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 5:1–5:5 — Eliphaz Warns that Resentment Destroys the FoolSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 5:1–5:5, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 5:1–5:5
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