Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
New American Standard Bible
As sparks fly upward.
King James Version
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Holman Bible
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.
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.
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 5:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Response Continues
6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery. 7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly. 8 Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 14:1
Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
Genesis 3:17-19
And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,
Psalm 90:8-9
Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 5:15-17
As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it.