Job 5:2-5

a Jer. 12:2, 3; [Ps. 37:35, 36; 73:18-20]

c ch. 29:7; Ps. 127:5; Prov. 22:22; [Josh. 20:4; Amos 5:12]; See Ruth 4:1

2 Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.
3 ^aI have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
4 His children are ^bfar from safety;
they are crushed in ^cthe gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.
5 The hungry eat his harvest,
and he takes it even out of thorns, ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain}
and the thirsty pant ^{▼▼Aquila, Symmachus, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew could be read as and the snare pants} after his ^{▼▼Hebrew their} wealth.