They conceive mischief and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.”
Job 5:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For misery does not come from the earth, nor does trouble sprout from the ground, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring forth out of the ground. American Standard Version (1901) For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Common English Bible Surely trouble doesn’t come from dust, nor does distress sprout from the ground. Catholic Public Domain Version Nothing on earth occurs without a reason, and sorrow does not rise from the earth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground. |
They conceive mischief and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.”
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—
I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe; I the Lord do all these things.
They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
You shall not reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your unpruned vine: it shall be a year of complete rest for the land.
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster befall a city unless the Lord has done it?
but I feared provocation by the enemy, for their adversaries might misunderstand and say, “Our hand is triumphant; it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.
And watch: if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”