Job 5:6
What does Job 5:6 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 5:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 90:7
For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.
- 1 Samuel 6:9
And see; if it goeth up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, 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.
- Lamentations 3:38
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
- Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lestthere beany man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
- Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
- Deuteronomy 32:27
Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.
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