Job 5:7

The Scriptures 2009

for man is born for trouble, and the sparks fly upward.

Cross References

Job 14:1

“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled.

Job 7:1

“Does not man have to struggle on earth? For his days are like the days of a hired man.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our lives are seventy years; Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet the best of them is but toil and exertion; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All matters are wearisome, no one is able to speak of it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does a man get for all his labour and strain of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sufferings, and his work grievous; even in the night his heart takes no rest. That too is futile.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

1 Corinthians 10:13

No trial has overtaken you except such as is common to man, and Elohim is trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial shall also make the way of escape, enabling you to bear it.