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Trouble

 Job 5:7 -Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. "Trouble" (H5999) - toil, that is, wearing effort; hence, worry, whether of body or mind ..."no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be attributed to second causes: It  doth not come forth of the dust,  nor  spring out of the ground,  as the grass doth,  v. 6 . It doth not come of course, at certain seasons of the year, as natural productions do, by a chain of second causes. The proportion between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed by Providence as that between day and night, summer and winter, but according to the will and counsel of God, when and as he thinks fit. Some read it,  Sin comes not forth out of the dust, nor   iniquity of the ground.  If men be bad, they must not lay the blame upon the soil, the climate, or the stars, but on themselves.  If thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.  We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God, nor our sins to fate,