Bible verse
He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
Job 5:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 5.
7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
9 the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
11 He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
12 He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
13 He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
14 They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
15 He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
KJV
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
ASV
So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
ERV
So that he setteth up on high those that be low; and those which mourn are exalted to safety.
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