Cross references
Job 5:7
Yet man is born to trouble
as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 5:7 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 14:1 (13 votes) and Genesis 3:17–19 (8 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 3 to 1 Corinthians 10.
Which verses does Job 5:7 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Job 14:113 votes
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Genesis 3:17–198 votes
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. …
- Ecclesiastes 5:15–177 votes
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands. This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind? …
- Psalm 90:8–94 votes
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- 1 Corinthians 10:134 votes
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
- Ecclesiastes 1:83 votes
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
- Ecclesiastes 2:223 votes
For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
Which verses point to Job 5:7?
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