Job 5:6
New International Version
For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground.

New Living Translation
But evil does not spring from the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.

English Standard Version
For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

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

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

New King James Version
For affliction does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble spring from the ground;

New American Standard Bible
“For disaster does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

NASB 1995
“For affliction does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

NASB 1977
“For affliction does not come from the dust, Neither does trouble sprout from the ground,

Legacy Standard Bible
For wickedness does not come out from the dust, Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

Amplified Bible
“For affliction does not come forth from the dust, Nor does trouble spring forth from the ground.

Christian Standard Bible
For distress does not grow out of the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For distress does not grow out of the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because falsehood does not come out from the dust, neither does evil spring forth from the ground

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

Contemporary English Version
Our suffering isn't caused by the failure of crops;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.

English Revised Version
For affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Certainly, sorrow doesn't come from the soil, and trouble doesn't sprout from the ground.

Good News Translation
Evil does not grow in the soil, nor does trouble grow out of the ground.

International Standard Version
For wickedness doesn't crop up from dust, nor does trouble sprout out of the ground;

JPS Tanakh 1917
For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Literal Standard Version
For sorrow does not come forth from the dust, | Nor does misery spring up from the ground.

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

New American Bible
For not from dust does mischief come, nor from the soil does trouble sprout.

NET Bible
For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

New Revised Standard Version
For misery does not come from the earth, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;

New Heart English Bible
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Webster's Bible Translation
Although affliction cometh not forth from 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;

Young's Literal Translation
For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

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Context
Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him
5The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth. 6For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. 7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.…

Cross References
Leviticus 25:5
You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

Job 15:35
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit."


Treasury of Scripture

Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

affliction.

Job 34:29
When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

Deuteronomy 32:27
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

1 Samuel 6:9
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

spring out.

Hosea 10:4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Hebrews 12:15
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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Job 5
1. Eliphaz shows that the end of the wicked is misery;
6. that man is born to trouble;
8. that God is to be regarded in affliction;
17. the happy end of God's correction.














(6, 7) Although affliction. . . .--These two verses are confessedly very difficult. It is hard to see also the connection between sparks flying upwards and man's being born to trouble. It seems to give better sense if we understand Eliphaz comparing man's lot as prepared for him by God with his own pride and presumptuous ambition. Man is born to labour, but, like sparks of fire, he makes high his flight. Trouble and toil is no accidental growth, but a lot appointed by God, which would be beneficial if man did not thwart it by his own pride. They lift themselves up and soar on high like sparks of fire with daring and presumptuous conduct, and so bring on themselves condign punishment. The same word means trouble and toil, and it may be understood in the two consecutive verses in these cognate, but slightly different, senses. It would be no consolation to Job to tell him that man was born to trouble; besides, it is a sentiment more likely to proceed from the patient himself than from the spectator.

Verse 6. - Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground. There is a tacit reference to what was said in Job 4:8. Affliction and trouble are not chance products of spontaneous growth. They only spring up when men have prepared the ground for them, and planted in it an evil seed.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י ׀ (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

distress
אָ֑וֶן (’ā·wen)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 205: Strictly nothingness, trouble, vanity, wickedness, an idol

does not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

spring
יֵצֵ֣א (yê·ṣê)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

from the dust,
מֵעָפָ֣ר (mê·‘ā·p̄ār)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

and trouble
עָמָֽל׃ (‘ā·māl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5999: Toil, wearing effort, worry, wheth, of body, mind

does not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

sprout
יִצְמַ֥ח (yiṣ·maḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6779: To sprout, spring up

from the ground.
וּ֝מֵאֲדָמָ֗ה (ū·mê·’ă·ḏā·māh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 127: Ground, land


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