Job 5:6
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
In Context
7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Cross References
1 Samuel 6:9but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
Lamentations 3:38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused 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 →