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Bad times don’t come up from the dirt.
    Trouble does not grow from the ground.
But people are born to have trouble,
    as surely as sparks rise from a fire.
If I were you, I would turn to God
    and tell him about my 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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