Job 5:6

Although affliction Rather, for affliction. The foregoing examples, the general evil and imperfection of man, ch. Job 4:12 seq., and the particular rebelliousness of the fool, ch. Job 5:2 seq., shew how affliction arises, and Eliphaz confirms the whole with his general maxim, for.… Eliphaz reverts here to his principle already enunciated, They that sow trouble reap the same, ch. Job 4:8. Affliction does not spring out of the earth like weeds, it is not a necessary product of the nature of things, turned out by the friction of the universe, it is due to the evil nature of men.