Job 5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. Eliphaz continues, warning Job not to appeal to angels and observing that affliction does not spring from the ground. He enumerates God's disciplinary blessings and concludes that the man God corrects is blessed, urging Job to accept divine chastening as …
Other Translations
But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
Cross References
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the …
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it …
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear …
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under …
As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take …
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not …