Job 5:1-7

Evangelical Heritage Version

5 Call out! Is there anyone there to answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

² It’s true, the fool is killed by resentment,
and the gullible are put to death by jealousy.
³ I myself have seen a fool putting down roots,
but immediately I pronounced a curse on his home.^[a]
4 His children are far from safety.
They are crushed at the city gate without a defender.
⁵ His harvest is eaten by the hungry,
    who snatch it away, even from among the thorns,
    and the thirsty^[b] swallow his children’s wealth.

⁶ Disaster does not just spring up from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the soil.
⁷ No, mankind is born for^[c] trouble as surely as flames fly upward.