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For misery does not grow out of the earth,
    nor does trouble spring from the soil.

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Rather, man breeds trouble for himself,
    as surely as sparks[a] fly upward.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:7 Sparks: literally, “sons of Resheph.” Resheph was a god of the Canaanites whose name came to be used in the Old Testament as a symbol of fire (Song 8:6), lightning bolts (Ps 78:48), and pestilence (Deut 32:24; Hab 3:5).