Job 5:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ Their children are far from safety,
    they are crushed in the gate,
    and there is no one to deliver them.
⁵ The hungry eat their harvest,
    and they take it even out of the thorns;^[a]
    and the thirsty^[b] pant after their wealth.
⁶ For misery does not come from the earth,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground;