Job 5:7
For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
In Context
6For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
8Yet I — I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,
Psalms 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,
Ecclesiastes 1:8All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also [is] vanity.
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation hath taken you — except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye 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 →