Key Verse Spotlight
Job 5:6 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; {affliction: or, iniquity}”
Job 5:6
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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.
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; {affliction: or, iniquity}
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. {trouble: or, labour} {sparks...: Heb. the sons of the burning coal lift up to fly}
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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