Job 5:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 Then to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able; but with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
  • Ps 90:8-9 : 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
  • Eccl 1:8 : 8 All things are full of labor; man cannot express it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
  • Eccl 2:22 : 22 For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun?
  • Eccl 5:15-17 : 15 As he came from his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor which he may carry away in his hand. 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind? 17 All his days he also eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

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