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I have seen fools taking root,
    but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.
Their children are far from safety,
    they are crushed in the gate,
    and there is no one to deliver them.
The hungry eat their harvest,
    and they take it even out of the thorns;[a]
    and the thirsty[b] pant after their wealth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. Job 5:5 Aquila Symmachus Syr Vg: Heb snare

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