Doubtless [a]anger killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the idiot.

I have seen the [b]foolish well rooted, and suddenly I [c]cursed his habitation, saying,

His [d]children shall be far from salvation, and they shall be destroyed in the [e]gate, and none shall deliver them.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:2 Murmuring against God in afflictions increaseth the pain, and uttered man’s folly.
  2. Job 5:3 That is, the sinner that hath not the fear of God.
  3. Job 5:3 I was not moved with his prosperity, but knew that God had cursed him and his.
  4. Job 5:4 Though God sometimes suffer the fathers to pass in this world, yet his judgments will light upon their wicked children.
  5. Job 5:4 By public judgment they shall be condemned, and none shall pity them.

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