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Job 5:6

Job 5:6 is verse 6 of Job chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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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;

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Job 5:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

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

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

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

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

8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

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Hebrew words

כִּ֤יfor לֹאnot יֵצֵ֣אit comes forth מֵעָפָ֣רfrom [the] dust אָ֑וֶןhardship וּ֝מֵאֲדָמָ֗הand from [the] ground לֹאnot יִצְמַ֥חit springs up עָמָֽלtrouble

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 34:29
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,

Deuteronomy 32:27
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.’”

1 Samuel 6:9
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 and that it happened by chance.”

Psalms 90:7
For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Lamentations 3:38
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

Amos 3:6
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

Hosea 10:4
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
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.

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