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The Book of Job, Chapter 5, Verse 6

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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
King James Version
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
American Standard Version
For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
New English Translation
For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
World English Bible
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
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Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
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To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.