Job 5:7
But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
In Context
6For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
8But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
Psalms 90:8You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
1 Corinthians 10:13You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.
Matthew Henry on Job 5:7-17
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their… Read the whole commentary →