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 you have listened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;
Psalm 90:8
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Trouble
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness; man cannot express it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored 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 from his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.