KJV King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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Job 5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
WEB World English Bible
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
ASV American Standard Version
But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
Surrounding context — Job 5
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
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Job 14:1Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.Genesis 3:17-19And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;Ecclesiastes 5:15-17As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.1 Corinthians 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].Ecclesiastes 2:22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?Psalm 90:8-9Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.Ecclesiastes 1:8All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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