Job 5:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

but man is born to trouble as the 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

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 7:1

“Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Psalm 90:10

The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does 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 temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.