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Hard times don’t just grow out of the soil.
    Trouble doesn’t jump out of the ground.
People are born to have trouble.
    And that’s just as sure as sparks fly up.

“If I were you, I’d make my appeal to God.
    I’d bring my case to be judged by 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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