Job 5:6
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust,neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
In Context
7but man is born to trouble,as the sparks fly upward.
Cross References
1 Samuel 6:9And watch; if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in your anger.We are troubled in your wrath.
Lamentations 3:38Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Amos 3:6Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,without the people being afraid?Does disaster happen to a city,unless the Lord has 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 →