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For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring forth out of the ground.

But man is born to trouble as the sparks and the flames fly upward.

As for me, I would seek God and inquire of and require Him, and to God would I commit my cause—

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For hardship does not spring from the soil,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground.(A)
Yet man is born to trouble(B)
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

“But if I were you, I would appeal to God;
    I would lay my cause before him.(C)

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