Bible in Basic English
"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."
— Job 5:5, Bible in Basic English
“Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.”
For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
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.
For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him: