affliction: or, iniquity
trouble: Job 34:29; Deuteronomy 32:27; 1 Samuel 6:9; Psalms 90:7; Isaiah 45:7; Lamentations 3:38; Amos 3:6
spring out: Hosea 10:4; Hebrews 12:15
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Job 5:6
Job 5:6
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