Devine Scripture

Job 5:7

Job chapter 5 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

Context

v.6For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

v.7This passage

v.8But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:15

    As he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

  • Job 14:1

    Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • Genesis 3:17

    And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

  • Ecclesiastes 2:22

    For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

  • Psalms 90:8

    Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:13

    There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.