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The Book of Job, Chapter 5, Verse 7

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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
American Standard Version
But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
New English Translation
but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
World English Bible
but man is born to 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.
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Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: