Job 5:7
For man is born to misery, || And the sparks go high to fly.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
In Context
6For sorrow does not come forth from the dust, || Nor does misery spring up from the ground.
8Yet I inquire for God, || And for God I give my word,
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to the man He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eat from the tree concerning which I have charged you, saying, You do not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on your account; in sorrow you eat of it [for] all days of your life,
Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, || Our hidden things at the light of Your face,
Ecclesiastes 1:8All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor is the ear filled from hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart has not lain down; this [is] also vanity.
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has taken you—except that of man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted above what you are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being 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 →