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Problems do not grow like plants in our fields.
    Trouble does not come up from the ground.
But trouble comes to everyone, as soon as they are born.
    It is as certain as smoke that rises from a fire.

I suggest that you ask God to help you.
    You should tell him about your problems.

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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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