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Job 5:3
I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
Job 5:3 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Job 5:3 in other translations
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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In context
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
6 Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
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