Bible verse
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
Job 5:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 5.
2 For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
4 His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
5 The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
6 For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
9 the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
KJV
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
ASV
For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
ERV
For affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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