Job 5:6,7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Although affliction cometh not, &c.— The Hebrew is rather, For iniquity cometh not forth out of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; i.e. "As the wickedness of men does not proceed from any natural cause in the origin of things, but from their own free-will, or from the abuse of divine grace; so neither are their miseries to be considered as the effects of merely natural causes, but as the distributions of a free agent likewise, who fits men's punishments to their crimes; and hence man, being prone to sin, is necessarily born to suffer: yet man is born, &c." But this verse would be better rendered, agreeable to the interpretation given of the preceding one, for then man would be born to trouble as the sparks fly upward; that is, it would fall upon him naturally and necessarily, without any determination or direction of any mortal agent. He could neither prevent it by his piety, nor hasten it by his impiety. The last clause of this verse is literally in the Hebrew, As the sons of the burning coal lift themselves up to fly. This agrees well with the sparks of fire, which naturally ascend. Peters. Houbigant and Heath, after some of the ancient versions, render this clause, As the young eagles for soaring aloft.