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Resentment slays the fool,
    and envy brings death to the simpleton.
I have seen a fool enjoy success for a time,
    but suddenly his house was cursed.
“His children are cut off from safety,
    slaughtered at the gate[a] without a defender.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:4 At the gate: the place of the city where normal business was conducted and justice was administered.