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Job Chapter 5 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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BBE Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.
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DARBY Job 5:3

I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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KJV Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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WBT Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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WEB Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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YLT Job 5:3

I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - I have seen the foolish taking root. The "I" is emphatic. "I myself have seen," etc. What Eliphaz had seen was that folly, i.e. sinful infatuation, was always punished. It might seem to prosper: the foolish man might seem to be taking root; but Eliphaz was not deceived by appearances - he saw through them, he knew that there was a curse upon the man's house, and so pronounced it accursed. And the ruin which he had foreseen, it is implied, followed. But suddenly; rather, immediately, without hesitation. I cursed his habitation; i.e. "pronounced it accursed, declared that the curse of God rested upon it?"

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) I cursed.--The word means, "I was able to declare distinctly, and I did declare without hesitation, that his lot would be as follows." All these general results of experience have the sting of insinuation in them that they contain the key to Job's unfortunate condition. There is secret unsoundness there which is the cause of the manifest and open misery. It is impossible that a man so stricken should be otherwise than, for some unknown reason, the guilty victim of the righteous wrath of a just judge.