Job 5:1-7

The Voice

5 Eliphaz: As for you, Job, feel free to call, but will anyone reply?
        Among His holy attendants, to whom will you turn?
²     Remember, anger kills off the foolish,
        and jealous indignation closes in on the simple for the kill.
³     I have seen a fool putting down roots, apparently succeeding,
        and immediately I cursed his house, knowing this brings destruction.
⁴     His children are far from safe,
        crushed in full view of the city’s gate with no defender nearby.
⁵     Hungry raiders consume his crops,
        harvesting even where the thorns stand guard^[a]
        while drifters and con-men target his wealth.
⁶     You see, sorrow is not a natural product of the soil,
        nor is trouble known to sprout up from the earth itself.
⁷     Still humankind is born into trouble,
        just as embers break loose and fly from the fire.