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Evil does not grow in the soil,
    nor does trouble grow out of the ground.

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For hardship does not spring from the soil,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground.(A)

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No indeed! We bring trouble on ourselves,
    as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:7 sparks fly up from a fire; or birds fly up to the sky.

Yet man is born to trouble(A)
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

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