Job 5:1-7

American Standard Version

5 Call now; is there any that will answer thee?
And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
² For vexation killeth the foolish man,
And ^[a]jealousy slayeth the silly one.
³ I have seen the foolish taking root:
But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
⁴ His children are far from safety,
And they are crushed in the gate,
Neither is there any to deliver them:
⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,
And taketh it even out of the thorns;
And ^[b]the snare gapeth for their substance.
⁶ For ^[c]affliction cometh not forth from the dust,
Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
⁷ But man is born unto trouble,
As ^[d]the sparks fly upward.