Job 5:7

New Century Version

People produce trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Cross References

Job 14:1

“All of us born to women live only a few days and have lots of trouble.

Job 7:1

“People have a hard task on earth, and their days are like those of a laborer.

Psalm 90:10

Our lifetime is seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years. But the years are full of hard work and pain. They pass quickly, and then we are gone.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

Everything is boring, so boring that you don’t even want to talk about it. Words come again and again to our ears, but we never hear enough, nor can we ever really see all we want to see.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What do people get for all their work and struggling here on earth?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All of their lives their work is full of pain and sorrow, and even at night their minds don’t rest. This is also useless.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I have to come out of my mother’s body? All I have known is trouble and sorrow, and my life will end in shame.

1 Corinthians 10:13

The only temptation that has come to you is that which everyone has. But you can trust God, who will not permit you to be tempted more than you can stand. But when you are tempted, he will also give you a way to escape so that you will be able to stand it.