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Their children can never find safety;
    no one stands up to defend them in court.
Hungry people will eat the fool's crops—
    even the grain growing among thorns[a]
    and thirsty people will envy his wealth.
Evil does not grow in the soil,
    nor does trouble grow out of the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:5 Probable text even … thorns; Hebrew unclear.

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