Job 5:7

In 11 translations

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.trouble: or, laboursparks…: Heb. the sons of the burning coal lift up to fly

WEB

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

ASV

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

LSV

For man is born to misery, || And the sparks go high to fly.

YLT

For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

DBY

For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.

DRC

Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.

GNV

But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.

JPS

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

LXXE

yet man is born to labour, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.

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WLC

כִּֽי־אָ֭דָם לְעָמָ֣ל יוּלָּ֑ד וּבְנֵי־רֶ֝֗שֶׁף יַגְבִּ֥יהוּ עֽוּף׃

LXX-Br

Ἀλλὰ ἄνθρωπος γεννᾶται κόπῳ, νεοσσοὶ δὲ γυπὸς τὰ ὑψηλὰ πέτονται.

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• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Genesis 3:17–19And 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…
• Ecclesiastes 5:15–17As 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. This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What…
• Psalms 90:8–9You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
• 1 Corinthians 10:13No 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…
• Ecclesiastes 2:22For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
• Ecclesiastes 1:8All 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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