Job 5:7

A Conservative Version

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Cross References

Job 14:1

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

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun?

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.

Job 7:1

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

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

Jeremiah 20:18

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

Psalm 90:10

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.