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But a human being is born to trouble,
and they soar aloft[a] like sparks.[b]
“But I myself[c] will seek God,
and to God I would commit my cause.
He is doing great and unsearchable[d] things,
marvelous things without number[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:7 Literally “they make high to fly”
  2. Job 5:7 Literally “children of flame”
  3. Job 5:8 Emphatic personal pronoun
  4. Job 5:9 Literally “there is no searching”
  5. Job 5:9 Literally “until there is no number”