Job 5:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.”
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“For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;”
King James Version · Public Domain“For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 5:6 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:27if 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 6:9but 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.”
- Job 34:29But 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,
- Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
- Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- Lamentations 3:38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
- Hosea 10:4They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
- Amos 3:6If 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?
- Hebrews 12:15See 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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