Job 5:5-7

The Voice

⁵     Hungry raiders consume his crops,
        harvesting even where the thorns stand guard^[a]
        while drifters and con-men target his wealth.
⁶     You see, sorrow is not a natural product of the soil,
        nor is trouble known to sprout up from the earth itself.
⁷     Still humankind is born into trouble,
        just as embers break loose and fly from the fire.