Verse 7

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

Referenced Verses

• Job 14:1 : 1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
• Gen 3:17-19 : 17 And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life. 18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food; 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
• 1 Cor 10:13 : 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.
• Ps 90:8-9 : 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
• Eccl 1:8 : 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.
• Eccl 2:22 : 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?
• Eccl 5:15-17 : 15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind? 16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble. 17 This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.