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Text:Job 5:6-12: Though trouble springs not from the dust

R5. Job 5:6-12: Though trouble springs not from the dust

Though trouble springs not from the dust,
nor sorrow from the ground;
Yet ills on ills, by Heav’n’s decree,
in man’s estate are found.

As sparks in close succession rise,
so man, the child of woe,
Is doomed to endless cares and toils
through all his life below.

But with my God I leave my cause;
from him I seek relief;
To him, in confidence of prayer
unbosom all my grief.

Unnumbered are his wondrous works,
unsearchable his ways;
’Tis his the mourning soul to cheer,
the bowed down to raise.

Text Information
First Line: Though trouble springs not from the dust
Title: Job 5:6-12: Though trouble springs not from the dust
Meter: 8,6,8,6
Language: English
Publication Date: 1800
Scripture:
Notes: Public Domain.
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