⁴ His children are far from help.
    They are crushed at the city gate,
        and no one is there to rescue them.
⁵ What a stubborn fool gathers, hungry people eat.
    They take it even from among the thorns,
        and thirsty people pant after his wealth.^[a]
6 Certainly, sorrow doesn’t come from the soil,
    and trouble doesn’t sprout from the ground.