Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

In Context

2For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

4Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

Job 27:8For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

Psalms 69:25\69:24\Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

Psalms 73:18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Jeremiah 12:1You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Matthew Henry on Job 5:2-6

The Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. A very… Read the whole commentary →

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