Job 5:7

Modern English 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.

Job 7:1

“Is there not a time of hard service for a man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?

Psalm 90:10

The years of our life are seventy, or even, by reason of strength, eighty; yet their span is but toil and sorrow; they soon pass away, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All matters are wearisome. A person is not able to speak to them. The eye is not satisfied with what it sees, and the ear is not content with what it hears.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What becomes a man for all his labor and striving in his heart with which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All his days are sorrowful, and his work is a vexation. Even at night his heart finds no rest. This also is vanity.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb to see trouble and sorrow, so that my days are spent in shame?

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, and He will not permit you to be tempted above what you can endure, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.