They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their belly prepares deception.”
Job 5:6 - Tree of Life Version For evil 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 mischief and bring forth evil and their belly prepares deception.”
“But if He is quiet, who can condemn Him? If He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He is over a nation and an individual alike,
I form light and create darkness. I make shalom and create calamity. I, Adonai, do all these things.
Is it not from the mouth of Elyon that both calamities and good things proceed?
They spoke words— empty oaths to make a covenant. But judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
You are not to reap what grows by itself during your harvest nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. It is to be a year of Shabbat rest for the land.
If a shofar alarm sounds in a city, will people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, has not Adonai caused it?
except I dread the taunt of the enemy, lest their foes might misconstrue— lest they say, ‘Our hand is held high, and Adonai has not done all this.’
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God; and see to it that no bitter root springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled.
Then watch—if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then it was He who inflicted on us this great harm. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it just happened to us by chance.”