OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

Job 5:5

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whose harvest the hungry eat up,

and take it even out of the thorns.

The snare gapes for their substance.

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Job 5:5 in context

Job 5:2–8

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
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whose harvest the hungry eat up,

and take it even out of the thorns.

The snare gapes for their substance.

6

For affliction doesn’t come out of 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.

I would commit my cause to God,

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