What does Job 5:3 mean?

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Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

• Psalms 73:18

  Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

• Job 27:8

  For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

• Psalms 37:35

  I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

• Jeremiah 12:1

  Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

• Psalms 92:7

  When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

• Deuteronomy 27:15

  Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination unto Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

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