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The hungry eat their harvest,
    and they take it even out of the thorns;[a]
    and the thirsty[b] pant after their wealth.
For misery does not come from the earth,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
but human beings are born to trouble
    just as sparks[c] fly upward.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. Job 5:5 Aquila Symmachus Syr Vg: Heb snare
  3. Job 5:7 Or birds; Heb sons of Resheph

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