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Job 5:3
3I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
Job 5:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment, but then comes sudden disaster.
Context of Job 5:3
1“Call if you will, but who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? 2Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple. I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed. 4His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender. 5The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty 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 27:8For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
- Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,
- Psalms 73:3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Psalms 92:7that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
- Jeremiah 12:1You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- Deuteronomy 27:15“Cursed is anyone who makes an idol—a thing detestable to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”
- Psalms 69:25May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
- Acts 1:20“For,” said Peter, “it is written in the Book of Psalms: “ ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, “ ‘May another take his place of leadership.’
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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