Job 5:1-7

Lexham English Bible

5 “Call now, is there anyone answering you?
And to which of the holy ones will you turn?
² For vexation will slay the fool,
and jealousy will kill the simple.
³ I have seen a fool taking root,
but^[a] suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
⁴ His children are far from deliverance,
and they are crushed in the gate,
and there is no deliverer—
⁵ whose harvest the hungry eats,
and he takes it from behind^[b] the thorns;
and the thirsty pants after their wealth.
⁶ Indeed,^[c] mischief does not come from the dust,
and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
⁷ But a human being is born to trouble,
and they soar aloft^[d] like sparks.^[e]