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Job 5:6

World English Bible

For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

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Job 5:6 in other translations

For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Job 5:6 · American Standard Version

Job 5:6 in context

  1. 4His children are far from safety.
    They are crushed in the gate.
    Neither is there any to deliver them,
  2. 5whose harvest the hungry eats up,
    and take it even out of the thorns.
    The snare gapes for their substance.
  3. 6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
    neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
  4. 7but man is born to trouble,
    as the sparks fly upward.
  5. 8“But as for me, I would seek God.
    I would commit my cause to God,