Job 5:1-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 1, 2 Eliphaz showeth the difference between the children of God and the wicked. 3 The fall of the wicked. 9 God’s power who destroyeth the wicked, and delivereth his.
1 Call now, if any will [a]answer thee, and to which of the Saints wilt thou turn?
2 Doubtless [b]anger killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the idiot.
3 I have seen the [c]foolish well rooted, and suddenly I [d]cursed his habitation, saying,
4 His [e]children shall be far from salvation, and they shall be destroyed in the [f]gate, and none shall deliver them.
5 The hungry shall eat up his harvest: yea, they shall take it from among the [g]thorns, and the thirsty shall drink up their substance.
6 For misery cometh not forth of the dust, [h]neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.
7 But man is born unto [i]travail, as the sparks fly upward.
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- Job 5:1 He willeth Job to consider the example of all them that have lived or do live godly, whether any of them be like unto him in raging against God as he doth.
- Job 5:2 Murmuring against God in afflictions increaseth the pain, and uttered man’s folly.
- Job 5:3 That is, the sinner that hath not the fear of God.
- Job 5:3 I was not moved with his prosperity, but knew that God had cursed him and his.
- Job 5:4 Though God sometimes suffer the fathers to pass in this world, yet his judgments will light upon their wicked children.
- Job 5:4 By public judgment they shall be condemned, and none shall pity them.
- Job 5:5 Though there be but two or three ears left in the hedges, yet these shall be taken from him.
- Job 5:6 That is, the earth is not the cause of barrenness and man’s misery, but his own sin.
- Job 5:7 Which declareth that sin is ever in our corrupt nature: for before sin it was not subject to pain and affliction.
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