Job 5:6

Although affliction comes not out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

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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

5Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.

7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 6:9And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that stroke us: it was a chance that happened to us.

Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by yours anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.

Lamentations 3:38Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?

Amos 3:6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not 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 →

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