🌪️WEB · Job 5:6
What does Job 5:6 mean?
"For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;"
— Job 5:6 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
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