Job 5:7
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
BSB
ASV
But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
KJV
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Man is born to labour, and the bird to flying. For 'man is born to labour,' in that he, who is furnished with the gift of reason, bethinks himself that it is wholly impossible for him to pass through this season of his pilgrimage without sorrowing. Hence when Paul was recounting his woes to his disciples, he justly added, For yourselves know that we are appointed thereto.
Yet--rather, "Truly," or, But affliction does not come from chance, but is the appointment of God for sin; that is, the original birth-sin of man. Eliphaz passes from the particular sin and consequent suffering of Job to the universal sin and suffering of mankind.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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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…
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if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
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Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
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Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.