Job 5:1-7

World English Bible

5 “Call now; is there any who will answer you?
    To which of the holy ones will you turn?
² For resentment kills the foolish man,
    and jealousy kills the simple.
³ I have seen the foolish taking root,
    but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
⁴ His children are far from safety.
    They are crushed in the gate.
    Neither is there any to deliver them,
⁵ whose harvest the hungry eats up,
    and take it even out of the thorns.
    The snare gapes for their substance.
⁶ For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
    neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
⁷ but man is born to trouble,
    as the sparks fly upward.