Job 5:1-7

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5 “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?^(A)
2 Surely vexation kills the fool,
    and jealousy slays the simple.^(B)
3 I have seen fools taking root,
    but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.^(C)
4 Their children are far from safety,
    they are crushed in the gate,
    and there is no one to deliver them.^(D)
5 The hungry eat their harvest,
    and they take it even out of the thorns,^[a]
    and the thirsty^[b] pant after their wealth.^(E)
6 For misery does not come from the earth,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
⁷ but humans are born to trouble
    just as sparks^[c] fly upward.^(F)