Job 5:16 Explained in Context

Verse 6. ⁶ Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Verse 7. ⁷ Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Verse 8. ⁸ I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Verse 9. ⁹ Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

Verse 10. ¹⁰ Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

Verse 11. ¹¹ To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

Verse 12. ¹² He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Verse 13. ¹³ He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Verse 14. ¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Verse 15. ¹⁵ But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

Verse 16. ¹⁶ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.