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Certainly, sorrow doesn’t come from the soil,
and trouble doesn’t sprout from the ground.
But a person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up ⌞from a fire⌟.

“But I would seek God’s help
and present my case to him.

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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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