Job 5:3 · KJV
“I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.”
— Job 5:3
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. {envy: or, indignation}
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither {is there} any to deliver {them}.
Job 5 — Context
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? {turn: or, look?}
2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. {envy: or, indignation}
3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither {is there} any to deliver {them}.
5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Cross References
Psalms 73:18-20
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; {it is} that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Psalms 73:3-9
For I was envious at the foolish, {when} I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Acts 1:20
For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take. {bishoprick: or, office, or, charge}
Jeremiah 12:1-3
Righteous {art} thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of {thy} judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? {wherefore} are all they happy that deal very treacherously? {talk...: or, reason the case with thee}
Job 27:8
For what {is} the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Deuteronomy 27:15-26
Cursed {be} the man that maketh {any} graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth {it} in {a} secret {place}. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Psalms 69:25
Let their habitation be desolate; {and} let none dwell in their tents. {their habitation: Heb. their palace} {let none...: Heb. let there not be a dweller}