World English Bible
Job 5:4
“His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,”
Verse in context — Job 5
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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.
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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 eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
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For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
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