His [a]children shall be far from salvation, and they shall be destroyed in the [b]gate, and none shall deliver them.

The hungry shall eat up his harvest: yea, they shall take it from among the [c]thorns, and the thirsty shall drink up their substance.

For misery cometh not forth of the dust, [d]neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:4 Though God sometimes suffer the fathers to pass in this world, yet his judgments will light upon their wicked children.
  2. Job 5:4 By public judgment they shall be condemned, and none shall pity them.
  3. Job 5:5 Though there be but two or three ears left in the hedges, yet these shall be taken from him.
  4. Job 5:6 That is, the earth is not the cause of barrenness and man’s misery, but his own sin.

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