Job 5:3
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.
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.
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 thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Read in contextPsalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:15–26
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Read in contextPsalms 37:35–36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Read in contextJob 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Read in contextJob 24:18
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Read in contextJeremiah 12:1–3
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Read in contextPsalms 73:3–9
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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