Job 5:7
For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
In Context
6For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
8But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;
Psalms 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able [to bear], but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that [ye] should be able to bear [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 →