Job 5:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But man is borne vnto labour, like as the sparkes flee vp out of the hot coles,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie.
  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe. 18 Thorne also and thistle shall it bryng foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the hearbe of the fielde. 19 In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no temptation taken you, but such as foloweth the nature of man: But God is faythfull, which shall not suffer you to be tempted aboue your strength: but shall with the temptation make away that ye maye be able to beare it.
  • Ps 90:8-9 : 8 Thou hast set our misdeedes before thee: and our sinnes wherof we be not priuie, in the lyght of thy countenaunce. 9 For all our dayes do passe in thine anger: we spende our yeres as in speaking a worde.
  • Eccl 1:8 : 8 All thinges are so harde to be knowen, that no man can expresse them: The eye is not satisfied with sight, the eare is not fylled with hearyng.
  • Eccl 2:22 : 22 For what getteth a man of all the labour and trauayle of his mynde that he taketh vnder the sunne?
  • Eccl 5:15-17 : 15 Lyke as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thyther agayne, and caryeth nothyng away with him of all his labour. 16 This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde? 17 All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darke, with great carefulnesse, sicknesse, and sorowe.

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