They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”
Job 5:6 - English Standard Version 2016 For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble 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, and their womb prepares deceit.”
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—
For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed.
I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should 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 by 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 coincidence.”