Job 5:11
To set the low on a high place, || And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
In Context
10Who is giving rain on the face of the land, || And is sending waters on the out-places.
12Making void thoughts of the cunning, || And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God [is] a habitation, || And beneath [are] continuous arms. And He casts out the enemy from your presence and says, Destroy!
Job 8:7And your beginning has been small, || And your latter end is very great.
Psalms 107:41And sets the needy on high from affliction, || And places families as a flock.
Ezekiel 17:24And all trees of the field have known || That I, YHWH, have made the high tree low, || I have set the low tree on high, || I have dried up the moist tree, || And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, || I, YHWH, have spoken, and have done [it]!”
Luke 6:21Blessed those hungering now—because you will be filled. Blessed those weeping now—because you will laugh.
James 4:6but [God] gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.”
Matthew Henry on Job 5:7-17
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… Read the whole commentary →