Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. Eliphaz continues, warning Job not to appeal to angels and observing that affliction does not spring from the ground. He enumerates God's disciplinary blessings and concludes that the man God corrects is blessed, urging Job to accept divine chastening as …
Other Translations
I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
I--I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.
Cross References
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the …
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall …
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the …
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.