Job 5:11
so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
World English Bible Classic
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 gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’
Job 8:7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
Psalms 107:41Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
Ezekiel 17:24All the trees of the field will know that I, the LORD, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “‘I, the LORD, have spoken and 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 more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists 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 →