Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Man

Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
Genesis 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 shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Psalm 90:8
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Trouble

Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of labour; more than man can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 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.