Job 5:7
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 5:7 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 5:7 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. trouble: or, labour sparks...: Heb. the sons of the burning coal..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 5:7 — KJV
“Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. trouble: or, labour sparks...: Heb. the sons of the burning coal lift up to fly”
— Job 5:7 (KJV)
Job 5:7 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 5:7
“And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.”
Shares key themes with Job 5:7: yet, born, heb
“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. The days...: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years”
Shares key themes with Job 5:7: yet, fly, labour
“Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. the first...: Heb. thy fulness liquors: Heb. tear”
Shares key themes with Job 5:7: born, heb, sons
“They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. heat: Heb. coals”
Shares key themes with Job 5:7: heb, burning, coal
“And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him. a nourisher of: Heb. to nourish thine...: Heb. thy gray hairs”
Shares key themes with Job 5:7: born, heb, sons
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