Job 5:7

New International Version

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Cross References

Job 14:1

“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.

Job 7:1

“Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?

Psalm 90:10

Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.