Job 5:7

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But people are born to trouble, just as sparks fly upward.

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  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble.
  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 To Adam He said, 'Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, "You must not eat from it," cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.' 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But with the temptation, He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
  • Ps 90:8-9 : 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh.
  • Eccl 1:8 : 8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
  • Eccl 2:22 : 22 What does a person gain from all their labor and from the striving of their heart under the sun?
  • Eccl 5:15-17 : 15 This too is a grievous evil: As a man comes, so he departs, and what does he gain from all his labor for the wind? 16 Throughout his days, he eats in darkness, with great frustration, sickness, and anger. 17 Behold, what I have seen is good and fitting: to eat and drink and to enjoy the good of all one's labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him, for this is his reward.

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  • Job 21:4
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  • Lam 3:39
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    39Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

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    13That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

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    8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

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    16Throughout his days, he eats in darkness, with great frustration, sickness, and anger.

    17Behold, what I have seen is good and fitting: to eat and drink and to enjoy the good of all one's labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him, for this is his reward.

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