Job 5:5
Verse 5 of 27. The 5th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Job 5:5 in the World English Bible
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.Read Job 5:5 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 5:5
They leave it to their children; but the descent shall not bar the entry of the rightful owners, who will crush their children, and cast them by due course of law (and there shall be none to help them), or perhaps by oppression, Ps. cix. 9, &c. [2.] His estate was plundered, v. 5. Job's was so.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 5:1–5: The Address of Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
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