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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Job 5:5 Catholic Bible: Hungry people will eat the fool's crops--even the grain growing among thorns--and thirsty people will envy his wealth. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/job/5-5.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/job/5-5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/job/5-5.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/1.htm">Job</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/5.htm">Chapter 5</a> > Verse 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/5-4.htm" title="Job 5:4">◄</a> Job 5:5 <a href="../job/5-6.htm" title="Job 5:6">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/job/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/job/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Hungry people will eat the fool's crops--even the grain growing among thorns--and thirsty people will envy his wealth. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The hungry eat their harvest, and they take it even out of the thorns; and the thirsty pant after their wealth.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/job/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Then hungry and greedy people gobble up their crops and grab their wealth. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />What they have reaped may the hungry eat up, or God take away by blight, or the thirsty swallow their substance. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/job/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.</p><p class="hdg">harvest.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/28-33.htm">Deuteronomy 28:33,51</a> May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be crushed at all times. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/6-3.htm">Judges 6:3-6</a> And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/62-8.htm">Isaiah 62:8</a> The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.</p><p class="hdg">the thorns.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/6-11.htm">Judges 6:11</a> And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11</a> Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.</p><p class="hdg">the robber.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/1-15.htm">Job 1:15,17</a> And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/12-6.htm">Job 12:6</a> The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/18-9.htm">Job 18:9</a> The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/8-7.htm">Hosea 8:7</a> For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.</p><p class="hdg">swalloweth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/2-3.htm">Job 2:3</a> And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/20-15.htm">Job 20:15</a> The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/51-34.htm">Jeremiah 51:34,44</a> Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../lamentations/2-5.htm">Lamentations 2:5,16</a> He. The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down Israel headlong, he hath overthrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Juda the afflicted, both men and women. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/job/5.htm">Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">4</span>His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them. <span class="reftext">5</span><span class="highl">Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.</span><span class="reftext">6</span>Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/18-8.htm">Job 18:8</a></span><br />For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/20-22.htm">Job 20:22</a></span><br />When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/22-10.htm">Job 22:10</a></span><br />Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/109-11.htm">Psalm 109:11</a></span><br />May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a 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