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His harvest the hungry eat,
    and he takes it even out of thorns;[a]
    and the thirsty[b] pant after his[c] wealth.
For affliction does not come from the dust,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
but man is born to trouble
    as the sparks fly upward.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:5 Heb obscure
  2. Job 5:5 Aquila Symmachus Syr Vg: Heb snare
  3. Job 5:5 Heb their

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