Job 5:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:27 : 27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
  • 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.
  • Job 34:29 : 29 ...
  • Ps 90:7 : 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
  • Lam 3:38 : 38 Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
  • Hos 10:4 : 4 Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.
  • Amos 3:6 : 6 If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

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    7 But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

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  • Job 5:4-5
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    4 Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

    5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

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    5 They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

  • Job 14:1
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    1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

  • Lam 3:33
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    33 For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

  • Job 5:16-19
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    16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

    17 Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

    18 For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.

    19 He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

  • Lam 3:38-39
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    38 Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

    39 What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

  • Job 8:19
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    19 Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.

  • Job 28:5-6
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    5 As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.

    6 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

  • Ps 75:6
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    6 For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south;

  • Job 36:21
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    21 Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.

  • Prov 26:2
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    2 As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.

  • Eccl 5:14-15
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    14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

    15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

  • Job 3:26
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    26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.

  • Job 12:6
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    6 There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

  • Job 15:29
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    29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • Job 4:8
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    8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

  • Job 20:4
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    4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • Prov 6:15
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    15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

  • Job 3:17
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    17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

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    24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

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    9 Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

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    24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

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    10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

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    6 In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.

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    5 Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?

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    22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

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    19 Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

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    9 What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

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    5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

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    13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

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    8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

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    16 Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

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    1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

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    23 There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

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    11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man