Berean Standard Bible

Job 5:6

“For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.”

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⁴His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

⁵The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

⁶For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

⁷Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

⁸However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

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