Job 5:11
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Updated King James 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 gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields:
12He dissapoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy them.
Job 8:7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
Psalms 107:41Yet sets he the poor on high from affliction, and makes him families like a flock.
Ezekiel 17:24And all the trees of the field shall 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 to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
Luke 6:21Blessed are all of you that hunger now: for all of you shall be filled. Blessed are all of you that weep now: for all of you shall laugh.
James 4:6But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto 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 →