Job 5:5

Job 5:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
• New International Version (NIV)The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Because the hungry eat up his harvest, Taking it even from the thorns, And a snare snatches their substance.

Context of Job 5:5

3I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them: Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance. 6For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

Job 5:5 word by word

אֲשֶׁ֤ר קְצִיר֨וֹ׀ רָ֘עֵ֤ב יֹאכֵ֗ל וְאֶֽל־מִצִּנִּ֥ים יִקָּחֵ֑הוּ וְשָׁאַ֖ף צַמִּ֣ים חֵילָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• harvestקָצִירqâtsîyr · harvestH7105
• hungryרָעֵבrâ‛êb · be hungryH7456
• thornsצֵןtsên · thornH6791

Cross-references for Job 5:5

• Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway;
• Judges 6:3And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;
• Isaiah 62:8Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:
• Judges 6:11And the angel of Jehovah came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
• 2 Chronicles 33:11Wherefore Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
• Job 1:15and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away: yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
• Job 18:9A gin shall take him by the heel, Anda snare shall lay hold on him.
• Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
• Job 2:3And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
• Job 20:15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
• Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.
• Lamentations 2:5The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Commentaries on Job 5:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Whose harvest - Their possessions, because acquired by unjust means, shall not be under the protection of God's providence; he shall abandon them to be pillaged and destroyed by the wandering half-starved hordes of the desert banditti. They shall carry it suddenly off; even the thorns - grain, weeds, thistles, and all, shall they carry off in their rapacious hurry. The robber swalloweth us - Or, more properly, the thirsty, צמים tsammim, as is plain from…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up - That is, they are not permitted to enjoy the avails of their own labor. The harvest field is subject to the depredations of others, who contrive to possess themselves of it, and to consume it. And taketh it even out of the thorns - Or, he seizes it to the very thorns. That is, the famished robber seizes the whole of the harvest. He takes it all away, even to the thistles, and chaff, and cockle, and whatever impure…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. even out of the thorns--Even when part of the grain remains hanging on the thorn bushes (or, "is growing among thorns," Mt 13:7), the hungry gleaner does not grudge the trouble of even taking it away, so clean swept away is the harvest of the wicked. the robber--as the Sabeans, who robbed Job. Rather, translate "the thirsty," as the antithesis in the parallelism, "the hungry," proves.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 5:5

• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Counsel
• Craftiness
• Device
• Enterprise
• Fly
• Mouth
• Trouble
• Eliphaz (2)
• Harvest
• James, Epistle of

Commentaries on Job 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings