Job 5:7
5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
- KJV
- Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- WEB
- but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- ASV
- But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
- DARBY
- For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
- BLB
- For man is born into toil, and as the sons of the flame soar to fly.
- 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.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Read in contextGenesis 3:17–19
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 sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Read in contextEcclesiastes 5:15–17
As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath 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 ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Read in contextPsalms 90:8–9
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 2:22
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Read in contextEcclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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