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·Hard times do [Misery does] not come up from the ·ground [dust],
    and trouble does not ·grow [sprout] from the earth [C they come from anger and jealousy].
People ·produce [L are born for] trouble
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

“But if I were you, I would ·call on [L seek] God
    and ·bring my problem [L commit my thoughts/cause] before him [C argues that Job needs to repent].

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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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