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Japanese
Etymology
Partial calque of Literary Chinese 盡人事，聽天命 (jìn rénshì, tīng tiānmìng). Originally read as 人事を尽くして天命に聴す (jinji o tsukushite tenmei ni makasu) in kanbun kundoku.
Literally "exhausting man's deeds, waiting for God's will", in which the back-formation of this form in pseudo-kanbun would be 盡人事，待天命.
Proverb
人事を尽くして天命を待つ • (jinji o tsukushite tenmei o matsu)
- to do one's level best and leave the rest to God's will; man proposes, God disposes