Key Verse Spotlight
Job 5:3 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.”
Job 5:3
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? {turn: or, look?}
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. {envy: or, indignation}
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither {is there} any to deliver {them}.
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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