Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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.

American Standard Version

But man is born unto 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.

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 toil will not come forth from the dust, and labor will not spring up from the earth; 7 For man shall be born to labor as the sons of the flame will lift up to fly. 8 But I will seek to God, and to God set my cause:

Cross References

Job 14:1

Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet

Genesis 3:17-19

And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Psalm 90:8-9

Thou didst set our iniquities before thee, our hidden things before the light of thy face.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All words becoming weary; man shall not be able to speak: the eye shall not be satisfied to see, and the ear shall not be filled from hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what was to man in all his labor, and in the striving of his heart, he labored under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 5:15-17

According as he came forth from his mother's womb, naked he shall turn back to go as he came, and he shall not take away anything in his labor that shall go in his hand.

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.

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