16So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.


In Context

13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the fraudulent is carried headlong.

14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

15 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:

18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.

Job 5:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:16So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.