Job 5:6

For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

Young's Literal Translation

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 doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

7For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 6:9and ye have seen, if the way of its own border it goeth up to Beth-Shemesh — He hath done to us this great evil; and if not, then we have known that His hand hath not come against us; an accident it hath been to us.'

Psalms 90:7For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

Lamentations 3:38From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.

Amos 3:6Is a trumpet blown in a city, And do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, And Jehovah hath 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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