Job 5:7

⁵ The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

⁶ For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

⁸ However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

⁹ the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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ÅB: men mennesket fødes til strev, slik som ildens gnister flyver høyt i været.
OTB: Men mennesket er født til trøbbel,
Som gnister flyr oppover.
B1930: men mennesket fødes til møie, likesom ildens gnister flyver høit i været.

Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
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Genesis 3:17–19
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
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Ecclesiastes 5:15–17
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
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1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
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Psalms 90:8–9
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
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