Job 5:5 Parallel Translations

What a stubborn fool gathers, hungry people eat. They take it even from among the thorns, and thirsty people pant after his wealth. (GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

ASV:

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.

BBE:

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

DBY:

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

ERV:

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

JPS:

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

WBS:

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

WEB:

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

YLT:

Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

Job 5:5 Cross References

XREF:

Job 18:8 "For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.

Job 22:10 "Therefore snares surround you, And sudden dread terrifies you, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the {g} thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
(g) Though there are only two or three ears left in the hedges, yet these will be taken from him.

WES:

5:5 Harvest - Which they confidently expect to reap after all their cost and labour, but are sadly and suddenly disappointed. The hungry - The hungry Sabeans eat it up. Thorns - Out of the fields: in spite of all dangers or difficulties in their way.

MHC:

5:1-5 Eliphaz here calls upon Job to answer his arguments. Were any of the saints or servants of God visited with such Divine judgments as Job, or did they ever behave like him under their sufferings? The term, saints, holy, or more strictly, consecrated ones, seems in all ages to have been applied to the people of God, through the Sacrifice slain in the covenant of their reconciliation. Eliphaz doubts not that the sin of sinners directly tends to their ruin. They kill themselves by some lust or other; therefore, no doubt, Job has done some foolish thing, by which he has brought himself into this condition. The allusion was plain to Job's former prosperity; but there was no evidence of Job's wickedness, and the application to him was unfair and severe.

CONC:

Consume Designing Devour Eager Eat Eateth Eats Gapes Gapeth Gets Goes Grain Harvest Hungry Pant Poor Produce Robber Schemer Snare Spring Substance Swallowed Swalloweth Takes Taketh Taking Thirsty Thorns Wealth

Consume Designing Devour Eager Eat Eateth Eats Food Gets Goes Grain Harvest Hungry Need Pant Poor Produce Robber Schemer Snare Spring Substance Swalloweth Thirsty Thorns Water Wealth

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