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Job 5:6
6For evil does not come from the dust, nor does trouble 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 sons are far from safety, and crushed at the gate without a deliverer! 5The hungry consumes his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pants after their wealth. For evil does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground. 7Yet man is born for trouble, as surely as sparks fly upward. 8But as for me, I would seek God; I would lay my cause before God.
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 34:29“But if He is quiet, who can condemn Him? If He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He is over a nation and an individual alike,
- Deuteronomy 32:27except I dread the taunt of the enemy, lest their foes might misconstrue— lest they say, ‘Our hand is held high, and Adonai has not done all this.’
- 1 Samuel 6:9Then watch—if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then it was He who inflicted on us this great harm. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it just happened to us by chance.”
- Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
- Isaiah 45:7I form light and create darkness. I make shalom and create calamity. I, Adonai, do all these things.
- Lamentations 3:38Is it not from the mouth of Elyon that both calamities and good things proceed?
- Amos 3:6If a shofar alarm sounds in a city, will people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, has not Adonai caused it?
- Hosea 10:4They spoke words— empty oaths to make a covenant. But judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- Hebrews 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God; and see to it that no bitter root springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be 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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