Job 5:6

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

ASV

For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

LSV

For sorrow does not come forth from the dust, || Nor does misery spring up from the ground.

YLT

For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

DBY

For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

DRC

Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.

GNV

For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

JPS

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

LXXE

For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

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WLC

כִּ֤י ׀ לֹא־יֵצֵ֣א מֵעָפָ֣ר אָ֑וֶן וּ֝מֵאֲדָמָ֗ה לֹא־יִצְמַ֥ח עָמָֽל׃

LXX-Br

Οὐ γὰρ μὴ ἐξέλθῃ ἐκ τῆς γῆς κόπος, οὐδὲ ἐξ ὀρέων ἀναβλαστήσει πόνος.

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