Job 5:3 “I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.”

Job 5:3

I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

World English Bible

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

American Standard Version

I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,

Darby Translation

I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Young's Literal Translation

I — I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

Bible in Basic English

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

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Cross references

“taking”

Psalm 73:18–20 Psalm 92:7 Job 27:8 Psalm 73:3–9 Jeremiah 12:1–3 Psalm 37:35

Psalm 73:18–20 · BSB

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Psalm 92:7 · BSB

that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

Job 27:8 · BSB

For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Psalm 73:3–9 · BSB

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Jeremiah 12:1–3 · BSB

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Psalm 37:35 · BSB

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

“cursed”

Deuteronomy 27:15–26 Psalm 69:25 Acts 1:20

Deuteronomy 27:15–26 · BSB

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Psalm 69:25 · BSB

May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

Acts 1:20 · BSB

“For 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 position.’

Also

Job 24:18

Job 24:18 · BSB

They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

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