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but human beings are born to trouble
    just as sparks[a] fly upward.

‘As for me, I would seek God,
    and to God I would commit my cause.
He does great things and unsearchable,
    marvellous things without number.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:7 Or birds; Heb sons of Resheph

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

“But if I were you, I would appeal to God;
    I would lay my cause before him.(B)
He performs wonders(C) that cannot be fathomed,(D)
    miracles that cannot be counted.(E)

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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

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