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What a stubborn fool gathers, hungry people eat.
They take it even from among the thorns,
and thirsty people pant after his wealth.
Certainly, sorrow doesn’t come from the soil,
and trouble doesn’t sprout from the ground.
But a person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up ⌞from a fire⌟.

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