New English Translation
Job 5:6
6For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up 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 safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them. 5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune. For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground, 7but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward. 8“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.
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 34:29But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
- Deuteronomy 32:27But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say, “Our power is great, and the Lord has not done all this!”’
- 1 Samuel 6:9But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”
- Psalms 90:7Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.
- Isaiah 45:7I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.
- Lamentations 3:38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes – both calamity and blessing?
- Amos 3:6If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the Lord not responsible?
- Hosea 10:4They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.
- Hebrews 12:15See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.
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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