Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 5:7 — Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

man   Job 14:1; Gen 3:17-19; Psa 90:8,9; 1Cr 10:13
trouble   or, labour. Ecc 1:8; Ecc 2:22; Ecc 5:15-17
sparks fly upward   Heb. sons of the burning coal lift up to fly.
Correlating Passages
man
Job 14:1 Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
Gen 3:17 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;
Gen 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Gen 3:19 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.
Psa 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
Psa 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].
1Cr 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].
trouble
Ecc 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.
Ecc 2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecc 5:15 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.
Ecc 5:16 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?
Ecc 5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 5:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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