Job 5:6
Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 labour and the bird to fly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 6:9And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.
Psalms 90:7For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.
Lamentations 3:38Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
Amos 3:6Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath 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 →