Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
New American Standard Bible
Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
King James Version
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Holman Bible
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
International Standard Version
For wickedness doesn't crop up from dust, nor does trouble sprout out of the ground;
A Conservative Version
For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,
American Standard Version
For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Amplified
“For affliction does not come forth from the dust,
Nor does trouble spring forth from the ground.
Bible in Basic English
For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
Darby Translation
For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Julia Smith Translation
For toil will not come forth from the dust, and labor will not spring up from the earth;
King James 2000
For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
Modern King James verseion
For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring up out of the ground;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"It is not the earth that bringeth forth travail, neither cometh sorrow out of the ground;
New Heart English Bible
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
The Emphasized Bible
For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, - nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.
Webster
Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
World English Bible
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
Youngs Literal Translation
For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
Themes
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 5:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Response Continues
5 The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune. 6 For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground, 7 but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:27
But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say, "Our power is great, and the Lord has not done all this!"'
1 Samuel 6:9
But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident."
Job 34:29
But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
Psalm 90:7
Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.
Isaiah 45:7
I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.
Lamentations 3:38
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes -- both calamity and blessing?
Hosea 10:4
They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.
Amos 3:6
If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the Lord not responsible?
Hebrews 12:15
See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.