They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb prepares deception.
Job 5:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For distress does not grow out of the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 trouble and give birth to evil; their womb prepares deception.
But when God is silent, who can declare him guilty? When he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he watches over both individuals and nations,
I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It is to be a year of complete rest for the land.
If a ram’s horn is blown in a city, aren’t people afraid? If a disaster occurs in a city, hasn’t the Lord done it?
if I had not feared provocation from the enemy, or feared that these foes might misunderstand and say, “Our own hand has prevailed; it wasn’t the Lord who did all this.” ’
Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and defiling many.
Then watch: If it goes up the road to its homeland towards Beth-shemesh, it is the Lord who has made this terrible trouble for us. However, if it doesn’t, we will know that it was not his hand that punished us #– #it was only something that happened to us by chance.’