Job 5:3
1 “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
4 His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
5 The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
- KJV
- I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- WEB
- I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- ASV
- I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- DARBY
- I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- BLB
- I have seen a fool taking root, and suddenly I cursed his abode.
- ÅB
- Jeg så en dåre skyte røtter; men med ett måtte jeg rope ve over hans bolig.
- OTB
- Jeg har sett dåren slå rot,
Og jeg forbannet straks hans hjem. - B1930
- Jeg så en dåre skyte røtter; men med ett måtte jeg rope ve over hans bolig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 73:18–20
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
Read in contextPsalms 92:7
that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:15–26
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Read in contextPsalms 37:35–36
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
Read in contextJob 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Read in contextJob 24:18
They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
Read in contextJeremiah 12:1–3
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
Read in contextPsalms 73:3–9
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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