Job 5:6 KJV

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

Matthew Henry

  • God is to be regarded in afflictionEliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so...

Cross References

  • 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.
  • 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:
  • Psalms 90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
  • Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

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Topics

  • Afflictions and adversities Man is born to
  • Eliphaz 2. Friend of Job
  • Faith Eliphaz, in the overruling providence of God, that afflictions are for the good of the righteous
  • God Providence of God
  • Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to

Hebrew and Strong’s

  • Although affliction אָוֶן ʾāwen אָוֶן Noun · masculine singular
  • cometh not forth כִּי kî Conjunction לֹא lōʾ Negative יֵצֵא yēṣēʾ יָצָא Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
  • of the dust מֵעָפָר mēʿāpār עָפָר Noun · masculine singular · with preposition
  • neither doth trouble לֹא lōʾ Negative עָמָל ʿāmāl עָמָל Noun · masculine or feminine singular
  • spring out יִצְמַח yiṣmaḥ צָמַח Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
  • of the ground וּמֵאֲדָמָה ûmēʾădāmâ אֲדָמָה Noun · feminine singular · with and, preposition

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