Job 5:3
I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
In Context
2For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.
4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, a work of the craftsman's hand, and putteth it up secretly! And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when God taketh away his soul?
Psalms 69:25Let their habitation be desolate; let there be no dweller in their tents.
Psalms 73:18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
Jeremiah 12:1Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of [thy] judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
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 →