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 hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.
Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:
Psalm 90:8
Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath none other temptation taken you, such as followeth the nature of man. God is faithful, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above your strength: but shall in the midst of the temptation make a way to escape out.
Trouble
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are so hard, that no man can express them. The eye is not satisfied with sight; the ear is not filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what getteth a man of all the labor and travail of his mind, that he taketh under the Sun,
Ecclesiastes 5:15
Like as he came naked out of his mother's womb, so goeth he thither again, and carryeth nothing away with him of all his labour.