In Context

4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

6 For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

8 |But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

9 who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

Job 5:7 in Other Translations