Job 5:6

For evil doesn't come from the dust; neither does trouble grow from the earth.

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

In Context

5The hungry eat everything he has harvested, taking even that protected by a thorn hedge, while others look to steal his wealth.

7But human beings are born for trouble just as certainly as sparks from a fire fly upwards.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 6:9but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its home country, to Beth-shemesh, then it is the Lord who caused all this terrible trouble for us. But if it doesn't, then we'll know that it wasn't him who punished us—it just happened to us by chance.”

Psalms 90:7We are burned up by your anger, terrified by your fury.

Lamentations 3:38When the Most High speaks it can be a disaster or a blessing.

Amos 3:6When the trumpet sounds in the city, shouldn't the people be alarmed? When a disaster comes to a city, isn't it the Lord who does it?

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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