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His children are far from deliverance;
    they’ll be maltreated before they leave home,[a]
        with no one to rescue them.
Then the hungry will devour his harvest,
    snatching it even from the midst of thorns,
        while the thirsty covet their wealth.
For wickedness doesn’t crop up from dust,
    nor does trouble sprout out of the ground;

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:4 Lit. be crushed in the gate