God’s Word Translation
Job 5:3
3I have seen a stubborn fool take root, but I quickly cursed his house.
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
1“Cry out! Is there anyone to answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? 2Certainly, anger kills a stubborn fool, and jealousy murders a gullible person. I have seen a stubborn fool take root, but I quickly cursed his house. 4His children are far from help. They are crushed at the city gate, and no one is there to rescue them. 5What a stubborn fool gathers, hungry people eat. They take it even from among the thorns, and thirsty people pant after his wealth.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:3 word by word
אֲֽנִי־רָ֭אִיתִי אֱוִ֣יל מַשְׁרִ֑ישׁ וָאֶקּ֖וֹב נָוֵ֣הוּ פִתְאֹֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 5:3
- Job 27:8After all, what hope does the godless person have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked person ⌞acting like⌟ a tyrant, spreading himself out like a large cedar tree.
- Psalms 73:3because I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the prosperity that wicked people enjoy.
- Psalms 92:7that wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers blossom ⌞like flowers⌟, only to be destroyed forever.
- Jeremiah 12:1O Lord, even if I would argue my case with you, you would always be right. Yet, I want to talk to you about your justice. Why do wicked people succeed? Why do treacherous people have peace and quiet?
- Deuteronomy 27:15“Whoever has a carved or metal statue, anything disgusting to the Lord that was made by a craftsman, and sets it up in secret will be cursed.” Then all the people will say amen.
- Psalms 69:25Let their camp be deserted and their tents empty.
- Acts 1:20You’ve read in Psalms, ‘Let his home be deserted, and let no one live there,’ and ‘Let someone else take his position.’ “Therefore, someone must be added to our number to serve with us as a witness that Jesus came back to life.
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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