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Job 5:2-10 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

2. For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill the simple.

3. I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

4. His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer—

5. whose harvest the hungry eats, and he takes it from behind the thorns; and the thirsty pants after their wealth.

6. Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.

7. But a human being is born to trouble, and they soar aloft like sparks.

8. “But I myself will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.

9. He is doing great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number—

10. the one who is giving rain on the surface of the earth and is sending water on the surface of the fields,

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