Job 5:11
He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
Majority Standard Bible
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
10He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
12He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
Job 8:7Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
Psalms 107:41But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
Ezekiel 17:24Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”
Luke 6:21Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
James 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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 →