Job 5:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.

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  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.
  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voyce of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eate of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life. 18 Thornes also, and thistles shall it bring foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the herbe of the fielde. 19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no tentation taken you, but such as appertaine to man: and God is faithfull, which will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you be able, but wil euen giue the issue with the tentation, that ye may be able to beare it.
  • Ps 90:8-9 : 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought.
  • Eccl 1:8 : 8 All things are full of labour: man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.
  • Eccl 2:22 : 22 For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?
  • Eccl 5:15-17 : 15 (5:14) As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shal beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand. 16 (5:15) And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde? 17 (5:16) Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.

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  • 6 For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.

    2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

  • 8 But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:

  • 17 Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

  • 1 I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

  • 14 Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye.

  • Job 3:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 And Iob cryed out, and sayd,

    3 Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.

  • 19 He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.

  • 4 Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

  • 39 Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.

  • Job 15:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13 That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?

    14 What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?

  • 19 Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.

  • 5 They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.

  • 9 Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?

  • 14 (7:16) In the day of wealth be of good comfort, and in the day of affliction consider: God also hath made this contrary to that, to the intent that man shoulde finde nothing after him.

  • 8 As a bird that wandreth from her nest, so is a man that wandreth from his owne place.

  • 24 Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.

  • 1 Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?

  • 8 As I haue seene, they that plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same.

  • 20 Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

  • 4 Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

  • 29 Lo, all these things will God worke twise or thrise with a man,

  • 4 And howe may a man be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman?

  • Eccl 5:14-17
    4 verses
    66%

    14 (5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.

    15 (5:14) As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shal beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand.

    16 (5:15) And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?

    17 (5:16) Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.

  • 19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.

  • 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.

  • 17 How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

  • 16 For a iust man falleth seuen times, and riseth againe: but the wicked fall into mischiefe.

  • 26 I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.

  • 22 He draweth also the mighty by his power, and when he riseth vp, none is sure of life.

  • 27 The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him.

  • 2 I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?

  • 15 Therefore shall his destruction come speedily: hee shall be destroyed suddenly without recouerie.

  • 11 Beholde, all you kindle a fire, and are compassed about with sparkes: walke in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye haue kindled. This shall ye haue of mine hand: ye shall lye downe in sorowe.

  • 20 The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.

  • Job 3:16-17
    2 verses
    65%

    16 Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

    17 The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.

  • 8 The righteous escapeth out of trouble, and the wicked shall come in his steade.

  • 10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:

  • 12 For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.

  • 12 Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.

  • 6 How much more man, a worme, euen the sonne of man, which is but a worme?

  • 5 Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.

  • 6 For to euery purpose there is a time and iudgement, because the miserie of man is great vpon him.