2 For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
         
                                
                        3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.
         
                                
                        4 Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
         
                                
                        5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
         
                                
                        6 For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
         
                                
                        7 But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
         
                                
                        8 But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him: