Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

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I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

In Context

2For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.

4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

Psalms 69:25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

Psalms 73:18Surely you did set them in slippery places: you casted them down into destruction.

Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

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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