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Job 5:7

World English Bible

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

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Job 5:7 in other translations

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

Job 5:7 · American Standard Version

Job 5:7 in context

  1. 5whose harvest the hungry eats up,
    and take it even out of the thorns.
    The snare gapes for their substance.
  2. 6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
    neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
  3. 7but man is born to trouble,
    as the sparks fly upward.
  4. 8“But as for me, I would seek God.
    I would commit my cause to God,
  5. 9who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
    marvelous things without number;