Job 5:3
I have seen the perverse taking root, || And I mark his habitation straight away,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
In Context
2For provocation slays the perverse, || And envy puts to death the simple,
4His sons are far from safety, || And they are bruised in the gate, || And there is no deliverer.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:15“Cursed [is] the man who makes a carved and molten image, an abomination [to] YHWH, work of the hands of a craftsman, and has put [it] in a secret place.” And all the people have answered and said, “Amen.”
Job 27:8For what [is] the hope of the profane, || When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?
Psalms 69:25Their tower is desolated, || There is no dweller in their tents.
Psalms 73:18Surely You set them in slippery places, || You have caused them to fall to desolations.
Jeremiah 12:1You [are] righteous, O YHWH, || When I plead toward You, || Only, let me speak judgments with You, || Why did the way of the wicked prosper? All treacherous dealers have been at rest.
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 →