The simplest rendering for the ULB may be better. Here this takes out a lot of speculation. And an unusual use of "spirit". this is still a difficult verse. Hence all the variety.
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\v 4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility against God? Therefore, whoever decides to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
\v 5 Or do you think the scripture is useless when it says that the spirit God placed in us is now filled with deep longing?
\v 5 Or do you think the scripture is without meaning when it says that the Spirit he placed within us is deeply jealous for us?
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\v 6 But God gives even more grace, which is why the scripture says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."