Job 5:7
Behold, man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
In Context
6For affliction cometh not from the dust, Nor doth trouble spring up from the ground;
8I would look to God, And to God would I commit my cause,
Cross References
Psalms 90:8Thou settest our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Ecclesiastes 1:8All words become weary; man cannot express it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:23For all his days are grief, and his occupation trouble; even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation hath come upon you, but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to endure, but will with the temptation furnish also the way to escape, that ye may be able to endure 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 →