Job 5:1–8

Call out! Will anyone answer you?

Which of the holy onesab will you turn to?

2 For anger kills a fool,

and jealousy slays the gullible.ac

3 I have seen a fool taking root,

but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

4 His children are far from safety.

They are crushed at the city gate,ad

with no one to rescue them.

5 The hungry consume his harvest,

even taking it out of the thorns.A

The thirstyB pant for his children’s wealth.

6 For distress does not grow out of the soil,

and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

7 But humans are born for troublea

as surely as sparks fly upward.

8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God

and would present my case to him.b