God’s Word Translation
Job 5:6
6Certainly, sorrow doesn’t come from the soil, and trouble doesn’t sprout from the ground.
Job 5:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
- New International Version (NIV)For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
- New King James Version (NKJV)For affliction does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble spring from the ground;
Context of Job 5:6
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. Certainly, sorrow doesn’t come from the soil, and trouble doesn’t sprout from the ground. 7But a person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up ⌞from a fire⌟. 8“But I would seek God’s help and present my case to him.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:6 word by word
כִּ֤י׀ לֹא־יֵצֵ֣א מֵעָפָ֣ר אָ֑וֶן וּ֝מֵאֲדָמָ֗ה לֹא־יִצְמַ֥ח עָמָֽל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 5:6
- Job 34:29If he keeps quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him whether it is a nation or a single person?
- Deuteronomy 32:27But I didn’t want their enemies to make me angry. I didn’t want their opponents to misunderstand and say, ‘We won this victory! It wasn’t the Lord who did all this!’ ”
- 1 Samuel 6:9but then watch where it goes. If it goes up the road to its own country toward Beth Shemesh, then this disaster is the Lord’s doing. But if not, we’ll know it wasn’t his hand that struck us, but what happened to us was an accident.”
- Psalms 90:7Indeed, your anger consumes us. Your rage terrifies us.
- Isaiah 45:7I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, the Lord, do all these things.
- Lamentations 3:38Both good and bad come from the mouth of the Most High God.
- Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds an alarm in a city, won’t the people be alarmed? If there is a disaster in a city, hasn’t the Lord done it?
- Hosea 10:4They say many things. They lie when they take oaths, and they make promises they don’t intend to keep. That’s why lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
- Hebrews 12:15Make sure that everyone has kindness from God so that bitterness doesn’t take root and grow up to cause trouble that corrupts many of you.
Commentaries on Job 5:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Affliction cometh not forth of the dust - If there were not an adequate cause, thou couldst not be so grievously afflicted. Spring out of the ground - It is not from mere natural causes that affliction and trouble come; God's justice inflicts them upon offending man.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust - Margin, “or iniquity.” The marginal reading here has been inserted from the different meanings attached to the Hebrew word. That word (און 'âven ) properly means nothingness, or vanity; then nothingness as to worth, unworthiness, wickedness, iniquity; and then the consequences of iniquity - adversity, calamity, affliction; Psalm 55:4; Proverbs 22:8; Psalm 90:10; Job 15:35. The Septuagint renders it ́…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin, and therefore born to trouble…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Although--rather, "for truly" [Umbreit]. affliction cometh not forth of the dust--like a weed, of its own accord. Eliphaz hints that the cause of it lay with Job himself.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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