Job 5:6

New International Reader's Version

Hard times don’t just grow out of the soil. Trouble doesn’t jump out of the ground.

Cross References

Job 15:35

Instead of having children, ungodly people create suffering. All they produce is evil. They are full of lies.”

Job 34:29

But if he remains silent, who can judge him? If he turns his face away, who can see him? He rules over individual people and nations alike.

Psalm 90:7

Your anger destroys us. Your burning anger terrifies us.

Isaiah 45:7

I cause light to shine. I also create darkness. I bring good times. I also create hard times. I do all these things. I am the Lord.

Lamentations 3:38

Troubles and good things alike come to people because the Most High God has commanded them to come.

Hosea 10:4

They make a lot of promises. They make agreements among themselves. They make promises they don’t mean to keep. So court cases spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

Leviticus 25:5

Do not gather what grows without being planted. And do not gather the grapes from the vines you have not taken care of. The land must have a year of rest.

Amos 3:6

When someone blows a trumpet in a city, don’t the people tremble with fear? When trouble comes to a city, hasn’t the Lord caused it?

Deuteronomy 32:27

But I was afraid their enemies would make fun of that. I was afraid their attackers would not understand. I was sure they would say, ‘We’re the ones who’ve beaten them! The Lord isn’t the one who did it.’ ”

Hebrews 12:15

Be sure that no one misses out on God’s grace. See to it that a bitter plant doesn’t grow up. If it does, it will cause trouble. And it will make many people impure.

1 Samuel 6:9

But keep an eye on the cart. See if it goes up toward Beth Shemesh to its own territory. If it does, then it’s the Lord who has brought this horrible trouble on us. But if it doesn’t, then we’ll know it wasn’t his hand that struck us. We’ll know it happened to us by chance.”