2 For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill the simple.
3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
4 His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer—
5 whose harvest the hungry eats, and he takes it from behind the thorns; and the thirsty pants after their wealth.
6 Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
7 But a human being is born to trouble, and they soar aloft like sparks.
8 “But I myself will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.