Job 5:7
World English Bible (WEB)
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
In context
5 whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
Job 5:7 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- KJV King James Version
- Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.