Job 5:1-7

Revised Standard Version

5 “Call now; is there any one who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
² Surely vexation kills the fool,
    and jealousy slays the simple.
³ I have seen the fool taking root,
    but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
⁴ His sons are far from safety,
    they are crushed in the gate,
    and there is no one to deliver them.
⁵ His harvest the hungry eat,
    and he takes it even out of thorns;^[a]
    and the thirsty^[b] pant after his^[c] wealth.
⁶ For affliction does not come from the dust,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
⁷ but man is born to trouble
    as the sparks fly upward.