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Job 5:16

World English Bible

So the poor has hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth.

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Job 5:16 in other translations

So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Job 5:16 · American Standard Version

Job 5:16 in context

  1. 14They meet with darkness in the day time,
    and grope at noonday as in the night.
  2. 15But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
    even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
  3. 16So the poor has hope,
    and injustice shuts her mouth.
  4. 17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
    Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
  5. 18For he wounds and binds up.
    He injures and his hands make whole.