Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

New American Standard Bible

For man is born for trouble,
As sparks fly upward.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

But mankind is born for trouble
as surely as sparks fly upward.

International Standard Version

But mankind is born headed for trouble, just as sparks soar skyward."

A Conservative Version

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Amplified


“For man is born for trouble,
[As naturally] as sparks fly upward.

Bible in Basic English

But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

Darby Translation

For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.

Julia Smith Translation

For man shall be born to labor as the sons of the flame will lift up to fly.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft} [like] {sparks}.

Modern King James verseion

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals.

NET Bible

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

New Heart English Bible

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

The Emphasized Bible

Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,

Webster

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

World English Bible

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Youngs Literal Translation

For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

is born
ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

fly
עוּף 
`uwph 
Usage: 28

References

Easton

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Response Continues

6 For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward. 8 But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;

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 toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Psalm 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 weariness; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 5:15-17

As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

1 Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

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