Job 5:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Although - rather, For truly (Umbreit).

Affliction cometh not forth of the dust - like a weed, of its own accord. Eliphaz hints that the cause of it lay with Job himself. The cause of afflictions is not to be sought for extrinsically, but in man himself.

Job 5:6

6 Although afflictionb cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;