Job 5:3-5

Common English Bible

³ I’ve seen the foolish take root
    and promptly curse their house.
⁴ Their children are far^[a] from safety,
    crushed in the gate without a deliverer.
⁵ The hungry devour^[b] their crops;
    it’s taken even from the thorns,^[c]
    and the thirsty pant after their yield.