Job 5:7 KJV
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Matthew Henry
- God is to be regarded in afflictionEliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so...
Thompson Chains
- TroubleStarts here · next Job 14:1 · 7 links
- TribulationSee the chain from Deuteronomy 4:30 · 7 links
Cross References
- Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Genesis 3:17–19 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; …
- 1 Corinthians 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.
- Psalms 90:8–9 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. …
- Ecclesiastes 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.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 5:15–17 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. …
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Topics
- Afflictions and adversities Man is born to
- Eliphaz 2. Friend of Job
- Faith Eliphaz, in the overruling providence of God, that afflictions are for the good of the righteous
- God Providence of God
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Presumption Reproved by Eliphaz
Hebrew and Strong’s
- Yet man כִּי kî Conjunction אָדָם ʾādām אָדָם Noun · masculine singular
- is born יוּלָּד yûllād יָלַד Verb · pual perfect, third person masculine singular
- unto trouble לְעָמָל lĕʿāmāl עָמָל Noun · masculine or feminine singular · with preposition
- as the sparks וּבְנֵי ûbĕnê בֵּן Noun · masculine plural construct · with and רֶשֶׁף rešep רֶשֶׁף Noun · masculine singular
- fly עוּף ʿûp עוּף Verb · qal infinitive construct
- upward יַגְבִּיהוּ yagbîhû גָּבַהּ Verb · hiphil imperfect, third person masculine plural
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