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Job 5:3
3I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- New International Version (NIV)I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.
Context of Job 5:3
1Call, I pray thee! Is there any that answereth thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn? 2For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple. I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer: 5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:3 word by word
אֲֽנִי־רָ֭אִיתִי אֱוִ֣יל מַשְׁרִ֑ישׁ וָאֶקּ֖וֹב נָוֵ֣הוּ פִתְאֹֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 5:3
- Job 27:8For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when God taketh away his soul?
- Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:
- Psalms 73:3For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
- Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of [thy] judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
- Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, a work of the craftsman's hand, and putteth it up secretly! And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
- Psalms 69:25Let their habitation be desolate; let there be no dweller in their tents.
- Acts 1:20For it is written in [the] book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership.
Commentaries on Job 5:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3I have seen the foolish taking root - I have seen wicked men for a time in prosperity, and becoming established in the earth; but I well knew, from God's manner of dealing with men, that they must soon be blasted. I even ventured to pronounce their doom; for I knew that, in the order of God's providence, that was inevitable. I cursed his habitation.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3I have seen the foolish - The wicked. To confirm the sentiment which he had just advanced, Eliphaz appeals to his own observation, and says that though the wicked for a time seem to be prosperous, yet he had observed that they were soon overtaken with calamity and cut down. He evidently means that prosperity was no evidence of the divine favor; but that when it had continued for a little time, and was then withdrawn, it was proof that the man who had been…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. the foolish--the wicked. I have seen the sinner spread his "root" wide in prosperity, yet circumstances "suddenly" occurred which gave occasion for his once prosperous dwelling being "cursed" as desolate (Psa 37:35, 36; Jr 17:8).Read the comment
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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
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