Job 5:7

Eliphaz's Response Continues

⁶ "It is not the earth that bringeth forth travail, neither cometh sorrow out of the ground; ⁷ but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals. ⁸ But now will I speak of the LORD, and talk of God:

Man is Born to Trouble

Job

Job 14:1

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

Genesis 3:17-19

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 90:8-9

Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

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 5:15-17

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.

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.