Job 5:1-7

New Living Translation

5 “Cry for help, but will anyone answer you?
    Which of the angels^[a] will help you?
² Surely resentment destroys the fool,
    and jealousy kills the simple.
³ I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment,
    but then comes sudden disaster.
⁴ Their children are abandoned far from help;
    they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
⁵ The hungry devour their harvest,
    even when it is guarded by brambles.^[b]
    The thirsty pant after their wealth.^[c]
6 But evil does not spring from the soil,
    and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
⁷ People are born for trouble
    as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.