Job 5:6
Nothing on earth occurs without a reason, and sorrow does not rise from the earth.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
In Context
7Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 6:9And you shall watch. And if, indeed, it ascends by the way of his own parts, toward Beth-shemesh, then he has done this great evil to us. But if not, then we shall know that it is by no means his hand that has touched us, but instead it happened by chance.”
Psalms 90:7A thousand will fall before your side and ten thousand before your right hand. Yet it will not draw near you.
Lamentations 3:38MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
Amos 3:6Will the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not become frightened? Will there be disaster in a city, which the Lord has not done?
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 →