Job 5:11
To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
Young's Literal Translation
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 subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:27A habitation [is] the eternal God, And beneath [are] arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, 'Destroy!'
Job 8:7And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
Psalms 107:41And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.
Ezekiel 17:24And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done [it]!'
Luke 6:21'Happy those hungering now — because ye shall be filled. 'Happy those weeping now — because ye shall laugh.
James 4:6and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
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 →