Job 5:11
To set on high those that are low: that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.
Webster 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
10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall say, Destroy them .
Job 8:7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
Psalms 107:41Yet he setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh 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 ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
James 4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth 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 →