For hardship does not spring from the soil,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground.(A)

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Yet man is born to trouble(A)
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

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“Do not mortals have hard service(A) on earth?(B)
    Are not their days like those of hired laborers?(C)
Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,(D)
    or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,(E)
so I have been allotted months of futility,
    and nights of misery have been assigned to me.(F)

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14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)

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