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Disaster does not just spring up from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the soil.
No, mankind is born for[a] trouble as surely as flames fly upward.

But I want to appeal to God.
I want to present my case to him.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:7 Or gives birth to
  2. Job 5:8 This verse may also be read as Eliphaz’s advice to Job. I would appeal to God.

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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