Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.
New American Standard Bible
And take it to a place of thorns,
And the
King James Version
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Holman Bible
even taking it out of the thorns.
The thirsty
International Standard Version
Then the hungry will devour his harvest, snatching it even from the midst of thorns, while the thirsty covet their wealth.
American Standard Version
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
Amplified
“The hungry devour his harvest
And take it even [when it grows] among the thorns;
The trap opens for [his] wealth.
Bible in Basic English
Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
Darby Translation
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.
Julia Smith Translation
Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance.
King James 2000
Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their wealth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
whose harvest [the] hungry eats, and he takes it {from behind} [the] thorns; and [the] thirsty pants after their wealth.
Modern King James verseion
Their harvest the hungry eats, and takes it even out of the thorns; and the snare swallows up their wealth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.
NET Bible
The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
New Heart English Bible
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
The Emphasized Bible
Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
Webster
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
World English Bible
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
Interlinear
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 5:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Response Continues
4 His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, 5 whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance. 6 For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation eat up which thou know not. And thou shall only be oppressed and crushed always,
Deuteronomy 28:51
and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed, that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee
Judges 6:3-6
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, they came up against them.
Judges 6:11
And the agent of LORD came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite. And his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
2 Chronicles 33:11
Therefore LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Job 1:15
and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 1:17
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped
Job 2:3
And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou m
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
Job 18:8-10
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils.
Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Isaiah 62:8
LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies, and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou have labored.
Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
Jeremiah 51:44
And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow any more to him. Yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Lamentations 2:5
LORD has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 2:16
All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.
Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.