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Job 5:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, "
Job 5:8
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6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
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Job 5:1
"“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?"
Job 5:2
"For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple."
Job 5:3
"I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation."
Job 5:4
"His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,"
Job 5:5
"whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance."
Job 5:6
"For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;"
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