Job 5:1-7

New Century Version

5 “Call if you want to, Job, but no one will answer you.
    You can’t turn to any of the holy ones.
² Anger kills the fool,
    and jealousy slays the stupid.
³ I have seen a fool succeed,
    but I cursed his home immediately.
⁴ His children are far from safety
    and are crushed in court with no defense.
⁵ The hungry eat his harvest,
    even taking what grew among the thorns,
    and thirsty people want his wealth.
⁶ Hard times do not come up from the ground,
    and trouble does not grow from the earth.
⁷ People produce trouble
    as surely as sparks fly upward.