Job 5:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ But 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 a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of an hireling?

Psalm 90:10

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labour and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

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

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

Jeremiah 20:18

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

1 Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.