New King James Version
Job 5:3
3I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.
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 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 out now; Is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? 2For wrath kills a foolish man, And envy slays a simple one. I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his dwelling place. 4His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer. 5Because the hungry eat up his harvest, Taking it even from the thorns, And a snare snatches their substance.
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 is the hope of the hypocrite, Though he may gain much, If God takes away his life?
- Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a native green tree.
- Psalms 73:3For I was envious of the boastful, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring up like grass, And when all the workers of iniquity flourish, It is that they may be destroyed forever.
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?
- Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ “And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen!’
- Psalms 69:25Let their dwelling place be desolate; Let no one live in their tents.
- Acts 1:20“For it is written in the Book of Psalms: ‘Let his dwelling place be desolate, And let no one live in it’; and, ‘Let another take his office.’
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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