Job 5:3
I have seen a fool growing strong, but I immediately cursed his house.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
In Context
2Surely anger slays the fool and jealousy kills the simple.
4His sons are never safe; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:15“A curse on anyone who makes a carved image or a metal idol and worships it in secret. It's only an object that someone made, and it's offensive to the Lord!” Everyone says “Amen!”
Job 27:8For what hope do those who reject God have when he cuts them down, when God brings their lives to an end?
Psalms 69:25Let the places where they live be deserted. Let their homes be abandoned.
Psalms 73:18For you send them on a slippery path; you throw them down to destruction.
Jeremiah 12:1Lord, when I complain to you, you always show yourself to be in the right. Even so I still want to present my case to you. Why is it that wicked people do so well? Why do those who are unfaithful to you live so comfortably?
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 →