Job 5:6

For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

In Context

5Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

7But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 6:9If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.

Psalms 90:7We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

Lamentations 3:38Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

Amos 3:6If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

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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