Job 5:7 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁷ yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Yet man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ But man is born to trouble as the sparks and the flames fly upward.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

Common English Bible

⁷ Surely humans are born to distress, just as sparks rise up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ 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

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

Psalm 90:10

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

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

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath labored under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Jeremiah 20:18

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

1 Corinthians 10:13

There 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.