Job 5:1-7

Common English Bible

5 Call out. Will anyone answer you?
    To which holy one will you turn?
² Surely anger can kill the foolish;
    fury can kill the simple.
³ I’ve seen the foolish take root
    and promptly curse their house.
⁴ Their children are far^[a] from safety,
    crushed in the gate without a deliverer.
⁵ The hungry devour^[b] their crops;
    it’s taken even from the thorns,^[c]
    and the thirsty pant after their yield.
⁶ Surely trouble doesn’t come from dust,
    nor does distress sprout from the ground.
⁷ Surely humans are born to distress,
    just as sparks rise up.