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Call, I pray thee - is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?

For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.

I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:

His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:

Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, - nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.

Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,