Job 5:4-6

Christian Standard Bible

⁴ His children are far from safety.
They are crushed at the city gate,^(A)
with no one to rescue them.
⁵ The hungry consume his harvest,
even taking it out of the thorns.^[a]
The thirsty^[b] pant for his children’s wealth.
⁶ For distress does not grow out of the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.