Job 5:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ For misery does not come from the earth, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring forth out of the ground.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Common English Bible

⁶ Surely trouble doesn’t come from dust, nor does distress sprout from the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Nothing on earth occurs without a reason, and sorrow does not rise from the earth.

Job 5:6 Cross References

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe; I the Lord do all these things.

Hebrews 12:15

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.

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster befall a city unless the Lord has done it?

Hosea 10:4

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Lamentations 3:38

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that evil and good come?

Psalm 90:7

For we are consumed by your anger; by your wrath we are overwhelmed.

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

1 Samuel 6:9

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.”

Deuteronomy 32:27

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.” ’

Leviticus 25:5

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.

Job 15:35

They conceive mischief and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.”