Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
World English Bible
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In Context
6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
Judges 6:3So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.
2 Chronicles 33:11Therefore the LORD brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Job 1:17While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
Job 20:15He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
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 →