Job 5:1-7

Holman Christian Standard Bible

5 Call out if you please. Will anyone answer you?
Which of the holy ones^(A) will you turn to?
² For anger kills a fool,
and jealousy slays the gullible.^(B)
3 I have seen a fool taking root,
but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.
⁴ His children are far from safety.
They are crushed at the city gate,^(C)
with no one to rescue them.
⁵ The hungry consume his harvest,
even taking it out of the thorns.^[a]
The thirsty^[b] pant for his children’s wealth.
⁶ For distress does not grow out of the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
⁷ But mankind is born for trouble^(D)
as surely as sparks fly upward.