Job 5:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but humans are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But man is born to trouble as the sparks and the flames fly upward.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Surely humans are born to distress, just as sparks rise up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.

Job 5:7 Cross References

Job 14:1

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Job 7:1

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer?

Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome, more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing or the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame?

1 Corinthians 10:13

No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.