Job 5:7

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

Job 5:7 · King James Version

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In other versions

But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
ASV
But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
BBE
For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
DBY
But man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
WEB
For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
YLT
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
ENG
Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
WBT
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
BSB

In context

⁵Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

⁶Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

⁷Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

⁸I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

⁹Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

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