Add parallel Print Page Options

Disaster does not just spring up from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the soil.
No, mankind is born for[a] trouble as surely as flames fly upward.

But I want to appeal to God.
I want to present my case to him.[b]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 5:7 Or gives birth to
  2. Job 5:8 This verse may also be read as Eliphaz’s advice to Job. I would appeal to God.