Job 5:5
World English Bible
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2 For resentment kills the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, Takes it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.
6 For affliction doesn`t come forth from the dust, Neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 But man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
8 "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;