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The Book of Job, Chapter 5, Verse 4

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I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
King James Version
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
American Standard Version
His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
New English Translation
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
World English Bible
His children are far from safety. 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.
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.