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Read Full Chapter (Job 5) Job 5:3-4 KJV
"I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them."
Job 5:3-4 in Context (Verses 1–7 KJV)
1
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?*
2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.*
3
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.
5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;*
7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.**