1. ‘Call if you will, but who will answer you?To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2. Resentment kills a fool,and envy slays the simple.
3. I myself have seen a fool taking root,but suddenly his house was cursed.
4. His children are far from safety,crushed in court without a defender.
5. The hungry consume his harvest,taking it even from among thorns,and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
6. For hardship does not spring from the soil,nor does trouble sprout from the ground.
7. Yet man is born to troubleas surely as sparks fly upwards.
8. ‘But if I were you, I would appeal to God;I would lay my cause before him.