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431 B
431 B
For difficulties do not come forth from the soil
"For difficulties do not come forth from the dust"
But mankind makes his own trouble just as sparks fly upward
The writer compares the trouble in people's lives to sparks shooting up from a fire. Both are inevitable. "But people have troubles from the time they are born just as surely as sparks shoot up from a fire" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)