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Job 5:6-7 New English Translation (NET Bible)

6 For evil does not come up from the dust,
nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
7 but people are born to trouble,
as surely as the sparks fly upward.

 

 

How to know the truth outside your own perspective?

How to understand divided fractions of yourself?

Does it start at times when someone is vindictive?

Or maybe at moments when things don't go too well?

 

When everything goes right and you seem very happy

Do you learn from that or does life just pass you by?

When trouble interrupts do you react kind of snappy?

When peace is fading fast and are you wondering why?

 

“Man is born unto trouble as sparks are flying upward”

that was written long ago by someone who understood.

But if right here was paradise what is there to look toward

after Jesus paid the price in full … securing us for good?

 

Jan Wienen   

 

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Comments (1)

Annette M Velasquez
Thoughtful and true. The rhymes are very smooth and exact. The meaning is deep, philosophical yet clear and simple to understand... it is of grace, faith and hope.

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