Job 5:6

For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.

7yet man is born to labour, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 6:9And ye shall see, if it shall go the way of its coasts along by Bæthsamys, he has brought upon us this great affliction; and if not, then shall we know that his hand has not touched us, but this is a chance which has happened to us.

Psalms 90:7A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Lamentations 3:38Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good.

Amos 3:6Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

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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