Job 5:6

For difficulties do not come out from the soil; 1 neither does trouble sprout from the ground. 1

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5The hungry eat up their harvest; 1 they even take it from among the thorns. 1 The thirsty pant for their wealth. 1

7Instead, mankind is born for trouble, 1 just as sparks fly upward. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 6:9Then watch; if it goes up on the way to its own land to Beth Shemesh, then it is Yahweh who has executed this great disaster. But if not, then we will know that it is not his hand that afflicted us; instead, we will know that it happened to us by chance.”

Psalms 90:7Truly, we are consumed in your anger, 1 and in your wrath we are terrified. 1

Lamentations 3:38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and the good come? 1

Amos 3:6If a trumpet sounds in a city, 1 will the people not tremble? 1 If disaster overtakes a city, 1 has Yahweh not sent it? 1

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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