Job 5:7 “Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.”

Job 5:7

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

World English Bible

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

American Standard Version

But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

Geneva Bible 1599

But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.

Darby Translation

For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.

Young's Literal Translation

For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

Bible in Basic English

But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

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Cross references

“man”

Job 14:1 Genesis 3:17–19 1 Corinthians 10:13 Psalm 90:8 Psalm 90:9

Job 14:1 · BSB

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Genesis 3:17–19 · BSB

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the day…

1 Corinthians 10:13 · BSB

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up…

Psalm 90:8 · BSB

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Psalm 90:9 · BSB

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

“trouble”

Ecclesiastes 5:15–17 Ecclesiastes 1:8 Ecclesiastes 2:22

Ecclesiastes 5:15–17 · BSB

As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 · BSB

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22 · BSB

For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

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