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Job 5:6-8
Good News Translation
Job 5:6-8
Good News Translation
6 Evil does not grow in the soil,
nor does trouble grow out of the ground.
7 No indeed! We bring trouble on ourselves,
as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.[a]
8 If I were you, I would turn to God
and present my case to him.
Footnotes
- Job 5:7 sparks fly up from a fire; or birds fly up to the sky.
Job 5:6-8
New International Version
Job 5:6-8
New International Version
6 For hardship does not spring from the soil,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground.(A)
7 Yet man is born to trouble(B)
as surely as sparks fly upward.
8 “But if I were you, I would appeal to God;
I would lay my cause before him.(C)
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