Job 5:6
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.
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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 darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Read in context1 Samuel 6:9
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
Read in contextPsalms 90:7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Read in contextJob 34:29
When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
Read in contextHosea 10:4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Read in contextLamentations 3:38
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:27
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Read in contextHebrews 12:15
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
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