Job 5:5-7

New Living Translation

⁵ The hungry devour their harvest,
    even when it is guarded by brambles.^[a]
    The thirsty pant after their wealth.^[b]
6 But evil does not spring from the soil,
    and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
⁷ People are born for trouble
    as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.