Job 5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
In Context
6Although affliction comes not out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And unto Adam he said, Because you have hearkened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;
Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are full of labour; man cannot utter 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 grief; yea, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
1 Corinthians 10:13There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that all of you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that all of 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 →