Job 5:6 “For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprou…”

Job 5:6

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

World English Bible

For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

American Standard Version

For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Geneva Bible 1599

For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

Darby Translation

For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Young's Literal Translation

For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

Bible in Basic English

For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

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Cross references

“trouble”

Isaiah 45:7 Job 34:29 1 Samuel 6:9 Psalm 90:7 Deuteronomy 32:27 Lamentations 3:38

Isaiah 45:7 · BSB

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Job 34:29 · BSB

But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

1 Samuel 6:9 · BSB

but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us…

Psalm 90:7 · BSB

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Deuteronomy 32:27 · BSB

if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

Lamentations 3:38 · BSB

Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

“spring out”

Hosea 10:4 Hebrews 12:15

Hosea 10:4 · BSB

They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Hebrews 12:15 · BSB

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.

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

In context

5The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

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