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For misery does not come from the earth,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
but human beings are born to trouble
    just as sparks[a] fly upward.

“As for me, I would seek God,
    and to God I would commit my cause.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:7 Or birds; Heb sons of Resheph

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