Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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Job 5:6
Affliction cometh not forth of the dust - If there were not an adequate cause, thou couldst not be so grievously afflicted.
Spring out of the ground - It is not from mere natural causes that affliction and trouble come; God' s justice inflicts them upon offending man.
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