Job 5:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.”
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BSBPD
“Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 5:7 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:17And 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 days of your life.
- Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
- Psalms 90:10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:23Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 5:15As 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.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13No 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 under it.
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