Job 5:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed `is' the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, 18 and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; 19 by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear `it'.
  • Ps 90:8-9 : 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
  • Eccl 1:8 : 8 All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.
  • Eccl 2:22 : 22 For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?
  • Eccl 5:15-17 : 15 As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand. 16 And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind? 17 Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

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