Job 5:1-10 (New International Version)
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"Call if you will, but who will answer you?1 To which of the holy ones2 will you turn?
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Resentment3 kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.4
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I myself have seen5 a fool taking root,6 but suddenly7 his house was cursed.8
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His children9 are far from safety,10 crushed in court11 without a defender.12
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The hungry consume his harvest,13 taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
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For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground.14
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Yet man is born to trouble15 as surely as sparks fly upward.
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"But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him.16
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He performs wonders17 that cannot be fathomed,18 miracles that cannot be counted.19
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He bestows rain on the earth;20 he sends water upon the countryside.21
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