Job 5:7 - Compare All Versions
Job 5:1-7 MSG (The Message)
“Call for help, Job, if you think anyone will answer! To which of the holy angels will you turn? The hot temper of a fool eventually kills him, the jealous anger of an idiot does her in. I’ve seen it myself—seen fools putting down roots, and then, suddenly, their houses are cursed. Their children out in the cold, abused and exploited, with no one to stick up for them. Hungry people off the street plunder their harvests, cleaning them out completely, taking thorns and all, insatiable for everything they have. Don’t blame fate when things go wrong— trouble doesn’t come from nowhere. It’s human! Mortals are born and bred for trouble, as certainly as sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7 KJV (King James Version)
Yet man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7 NCV (New Century Version)
People produce trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7 ASV (American Standard Version)
But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7 NIV (New International Version)
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7 NKJV (New King James Version)
Yet man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7 AMP (Amplified Bible)
“For man is born for trouble, [As naturally] as sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7 NLT (New Living Translation)
People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.
Job 5:7 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.