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The Book of Job, Chapter 5, Verse 2

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Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
King James Version
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
American Standard Version
For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
New English Translation
For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.
World English Bible
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
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I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
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Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
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To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.