Job 5:6

For sorrow does not come forth from the dust, || Nor does misery spring up from the ground.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Whose harvest the hungry eat, || And even take it from the thorns, || And the designing swallowed their wealth.

7For man is born to misery, || And the sparks go high to fly.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 6:9and you have seen if it goes up the way of its own border, to Beth-Shemesh—He has done this great evil to us; and if not, then we have known that His hand has not come against us; it has been an accident to us.”

Psalms 90:7For we were consumed in Your anger, || And we have been troubled in Your fury.

Lamentations 3:38From the mouth of the Most High does not go forth the evils and the good.

Amos 3:6Is a horn blown in a city, || And do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, || And YHWH has not done [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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