“"And the young birds will raise their feathers over him." This text indicates that sin is the cause of the calamities humans suffer. In a different sense we may understand the text to speak of angels as "sons of the winged ones," sent by God either for our correction and punishment when we transgress or for our protec…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 5:7
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6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
— Job 5:6 —
7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: