Job 5:7
Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
In Context
6Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
8Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
Psalms 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.
Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:23All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
1 Corinthians 10:13Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may 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 →