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Job 5:3–5

wI have seen the fool taking root,

but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

His children are xfar from safety;

they are crushed in ythe gate,

and there is no one to deliver them.

The hungry eat his harvest,

and he takes it even out of thorns,1

and the thirsty pant2 after his3 wealth.

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1

The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

2

Aquila, Symmachus, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew could be read as and the snare pants

3

Hebrew their

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