Job 5:4-6

The Voice

⁴     His children are far from safe,
        crushed in full view of the city’s gate with no defender nearby.
⁵     Hungry raiders consume his crops,
        harvesting even where the thorns stand guard^[a]
        while drifters and con-men target his wealth.
⁶     You see, sorrow is not a natural product of the soil,
        nor is trouble known to sprout up from the earth itself.