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Job 5:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple. "

Job 5:2

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1 “Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

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Proverbs 14:17

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"If a man of knowledge hears a wise word, he will commend it and add to it. The wanton man hears it, and it displeases him, so he throws it away behind his back."

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"For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed."

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"As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool. The knowledge of an unwise man is talk without sense."

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Job 5:1

"“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?"

Job 5:3

"I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation."

Job 5:4

"His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,"

Job 5:5

"whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance."

Job 5:6

"For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;"

Job 5:7

"but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward."

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