For misery cometh not forth of the dust, [a]neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

But man is born unto [b]travail, as the sparks fly upward.

But I would inquire at [c]God, and turn my talk unto God:

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:6 That is, the earth is not the cause of barrenness and man’s misery, but his own sin.
  2. Job 5:7 Which declareth that sin is ever in our corrupt nature: for before sin it was not subject to pain and affliction.
  3. Job 5:8 If I suffered as thou doest, I would seek unto God.

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