What does Job 5:7 mean?

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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.

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