OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Job 5:7

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but man is born to trouble,

as the sparks fly upward.

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Job 5:4–10

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His children are far from safety.

They are crushed in the gate.

Neither is there any to deliver them,

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whose harvest the hungry eat up,

and take it even out of the thorns.

The snare gapes for their substance.

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For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,

neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

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but man is born to trouble,

as the sparks fly upward.

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“But as for me, I would seek God.

I would commit my cause to God,

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who does great things that can’t be fathomed,

marvelous things without number;

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who gives rain on the earth,

and sends waters on the fields;

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