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490 B
490 B
For difficulties do not come out from the soil; neither does trouble sprout from the ground
Here difficulties and trouble are spoken of as if they were plants. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
mankind is born for trouble, just as sparks fly upward
It is as natural for people, once they are born, to have trouble as it is for sparks to fly up from a fire. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)