Job 5:6
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.
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
- KJV
- Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
- WEB
- For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
- ASV
- For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
- DARBY
- For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
- BLB
- For trouble does not come forth from the dust, nor does toil spring [up] from the ground.
- ÅB
- For ikke skyter ulykke opp av støvet, og strev spirer ikke fram av jorden;
- OTB
- For ulykke oppstår ikke fra støvet,
Og trøbbel spirer ikke fra bakken, - B1930
- For ikke skyter ulykke op av støvet, og møie spirer ikke frem av jorden;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
Read in context1 Samuel 6:9
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
Read in contextPsalms 90:7
For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
Read in contextJob 34:29
But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
Read in contextHosea 10:4
They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
Read in contextLamentations 3:38
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:27
if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
Read in contextHebrews 12:15
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
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