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Job Is Corrected by God

5‘Call now; is there anyone 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 fools taking root,
   but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.
⁴ Their children are far from safety,
   they are crushed in the gate,
   and there is no one to deliver them.
⁵ The hungry eat their harvest,
   and they take it even out of the thorns;^*
   and the thirsty^* pant after their wealth.
⁶ For misery does not come from the earth,
   nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
⁷ but human beings are born to trouble
   just as sparks^* fly upward.