Job 5:6

“Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, etc.] Or rather, “for” or “indeed” f188, this being a reason showing that wicked men are justly afflicted and punished; seeing their afflictions come not from the creatures, though they may be instruments, but from God for the sins of men: the word for affliction also signifies iniquity or sin, the cause of affliction, as well as affliction the fruit of sin; and so does the word in the following clause; and Aben Ezra understands both, not of natural but moral evil, and so do others f189; both senses may be taken in: sin does not come from God, the Maker of the dust of the earth, he is not the author of sin, nor does this spring out of the…”

“Although--rather, "for truly" [UMBREIT]. affliction cometh not forth of the dust--like a weed, of its own accord. Eliphaz hints that the cause of it lay with Job himself.”

“Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust - Margin, “or iniquity.” The marginal reading here has been inserted from the different meanings attached to the Hebrew word. That word (און 'âven) properly means nothingness, or vanity; then nothingness as to worth, unworthiness, wickedness, iniquity; and then the consequences of iniquity - adversity, calamity, affliction; Psalms 55:4; Proverbs 22:8; Psalms 90:10; Job 15:35. The Septuagint renders it κόπος kopos, “labor,” or “trouble.” The Vulgate, Nihil in terra, sine causa - “there is nothing on the earth without a cause.” The general sense is plain. It is, that afflictions are not to be ascribed to chance, or that they are not without…”

“The dust - It springs not up by merely natural causes, as herbs grow out of the earth: but from God. Eliphaz here begins to change his voice, as if he would atone for the hard words he had spoken. Job 5:7”

“affliction: or, iniquity trouble: Job 34:29; Deu 32:27; Sa1 6:9; Psa 90:7; Isa 45:7; Lam 3:38; Amo 3:6 spring out: Hos 10:4; Heb 12:15 Job 5:7”

“6 For evil cometh not forth from the dust, And sorrow sprouteth not from the earth; 7 For man is born to sorrow, As the sparks fly upward. 8 On the contrary, I would earnestly approach unto God, And commit my cause to the Godhead; 9 To Him who doeth great things and unsearchable; Marvellous things till there is no number: 10 Who giveth rain over the earth, And causeth water to flow over the fields: 11 To set the low in high places; And those that mourn are exalted to prosperity. As the oracle above, so Eliphaz says here, that a sorrowful life is allotted to man, (Note: Fries explains יוּלּד as part., and refers to Geiger's Lehrb. zur Sprache der Mischna, S. 41f., according to which מקטּל…”