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His children are far from safety; [involved in their father’s ruin] they are crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

His harvest the hungry eat and take it even [when it grows] among the thorns; the snare opens for [his] wealth.

For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring forth out of the ground.

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His children(A) are far from safety,(B)
    crushed in court(C) without a defender.(D)
The hungry consume his harvest,(E)
    taking it even from among thorns,
    and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
For hardship does not spring from the soil,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground.(F)

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