4. His sons are far from safety,They are crushed in the gate,And there is no deliverer.
5. Because the hungry eat up his harvest,Taking it even from the thorns,And a snare snatches their substance.
6. For affliction does not come from the dust,Nor does trouble spring from the ground;
7. Yet man is born to trouble,As the sparks fly upward.
8. “But as for me, I would seek God,And to God I would commit my cause—
9. Who does great things, and unsearchable,Marvelous things without number.
10. He gives rain on the earth,And sends waters on the fields.