A moment in scripture
Job 5:3
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I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 5:1
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
- Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
- Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
- Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.