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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,
And taketh it even out of the thorns;
And [a]the snare gapeth for their substance.
For [b]affliction cometh not forth from the dust,
Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
But man is born unto trouble,
As [c]the sparks fly upward.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:5 According to Vulgate, the thirsty swallow up.
  2. Job 5:6 Or, iniquity. See 4:8.
  3. Job 5:7 Hebrew the sons of flame (or of lightning).