That is to say, in the general confusion and terror the harvests are devoured, and there is no respect for the rights of property.
"6. Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground."
In the Douay version it reads:
"Nothing on earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground" (v, 6).
I take this to mean that the affliction which has fallen upon men comes not out of the ground, but from above.
"7. Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward."
In the Hebrew we read for sparks, "sons of flame or burning coal." Maurer and Gesenius say, "As the sons of lightning fly high"; or, "troubles are many and fiery as sparks."
[1. Faussett's "Commentary," iii, 40.]
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"8. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause;