Job 5:6

Eliphaz's Response Continues

⁵ “His harvest the hungry devour
And take it to a place of thorns,
And the schemer is eager for their wealth.
⁶ “For affliction does not come from the dust,
Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
⁷ For man is born for trouble,
As sparks fly upward.

Of The Earth

Job

Deuteronomy 32:27

Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,
That their adversaries would misjudge,
That they would say, “Our hand is triumphant,
And the Lord has not done all this.”’

1 Samuel 6:9

Watch, if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”

Job 34:29

When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn?
And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him,
That is, in regard to both nation and man?—

Psalm 90:7

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

Isaiah 45:7

The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

Lamentations 3:38

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?

Hosea 10:4

They speak mere words,
With worthless oaths they make covenants;
And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 3:6

If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble?
If a calamity occurs in a city has not the Lord done it?

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;