As the Sparks Fly Upward
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"For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward."
but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward."
-Job 5:7
We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin, and therefore born to trouble. There is nothing in this world we are born to, and can truly call our own, but sin and trouble. Actual transgressions are sparks that fly out of the furnace of original corruption. Such is the frailty of our bodies, and the vanity of all our enjoyments, that our troubles arise thence as the sparks fly upward; so many are they, and so fast does one follow another.
-Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job
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