Job 5:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁶For misery does not come from the earth,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
⁷but human beings are born to trouble
just as sparks^[a] fly upward.

⁸‘As for me, I would seek God,
and to God I would commit my cause.

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Footnotes

Job 5:7 Or birds; Heb sons of Resheph

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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