Job 5:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

Cross References

Job 14:1

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Job 7:1

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

Psalm 90:10

The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

1 Corinthians 10:13

You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.