Job 5:7

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What does Job 5:7 mean?

Job 5:7 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Job 5:7

• Job 14:1

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

• Genesis 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; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

• Ecclesiastes 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. And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

• 1 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.

• Psalms 90:8-9

  Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

• Ecclesiastes 2:22

  For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

• Ecclesiastes 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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Context

• Job 5:6

  Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

• Job 5:7

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

• Job 5:8

  I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

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