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Job 5:5

The hungry consume his harvest,

taking it even from the thorns,

and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Job 5:5 BSB
  1. a Or and a snare snatches his wealth

Job 5:5 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Lamentations 2:16 (7 votes) and Hosea 8:7 (5 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Genesis 3 to Hosea 8.

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Which verses does Job 5:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Lamentations 2:167 votes

    All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”

  2. Hosea 8:75 votes

    For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

  3. Jeremiah 51:444 votes

    I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.

  4. Jeremiah 51:343 votes

    “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

  5. Deuteronomy 28:332 votes

    A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

  6. Deuteronomy 28:512 votes

    They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

  7. Judges 6:3–62 votes

    Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them, encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys. …

  8. Judges 6:112 votes

    Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

  9. 2 Chronicles 33:112 votes

    So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

  10. Job 1:152 votes

    the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

  11. Job 1:172 votes
  12. Job 2:32 votes
  13. Job 12:62 votes
  14. Job 18:8–102 votes
  15. Job 20:152 votes
  16. Isaiah 62:82 votes
  17. Lamentations 2:51 vote

Which verses point to Job 5:5?

The 10 strongest of 11.