Job 5:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Our suffering isn't caused by the failure of crops;

Cross References

Job 15:35

because they are the parents of trouble and vicious lies.

Job 34:29

When God does nothing, can any person or nation find fault with him?

Psalm 90:7

Your furious anger frightens and destroys us,

Isaiah 45:7

I create light and darkness, happiness and sorrow. I, the LORD, do all of this.

Lamentations 3:38

Good and bad each happen at the command of God Most High.

Hosea 10:4

Israel, you break treaties and don't keep promises; you turn justice into poisonous weeds where healthy plants should grow.

Leviticus 25:5

This is to be a time of complete rest for your fields and vineyards, so don't harvest anything they produce.

Amos 3:6

Isn't the whole city frightened when the trumpet signals an attack? Isn't it the LORD who brings disaster on a city?

Deuteronomy 32:27

But I dreaded the sound of your enemies saying, ‘We defeated Israel with no help from the LORD.’ ”

Hebrews 12:15

Make sure that no one misses out on God's wonderful kindness. Don't let anyone become bitter and cause trouble for the rest of you.

1 Samuel 6:9

Watch to see if the chest goes on up the road to the Israelite town of Beth-Shemesh. If it goes back to its own country, you will know that it was the LORD who made us suffer so badly. But if the chest doesn't go back to its own country, then the LORD had nothing to do with the disease that hit us—it was simply bad luck.