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Our suffering isn't caused
    by the failure of crops;
it's all part of life,
    like sparks shooting skyward.

Job, if I were you,
    I would ask God for help.

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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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