1 Call now! Will anyone respond to you?To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 Surely impatience kills the fooland indignation slays the simpleton.
3 I have seen a fool spreading his roots,but I cursed his household suddenly:
4 May his children be far from safety;may they be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.
5 What they have reaped may the hungry eat up,or God take away by blight,or the thirsty swallow their substance.
6 For not from dust does mischief come,nor from the soil does trouble sprout.
7 Human beings beget mischiefas sparks fly upward.