Yet man is (A)born to [a]trouble,
As the sparks fly upward.

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  1. Job 5:7 labor

Job Speaks of Life’s Woes

14 “Man who is born of woman
Is of few days and (A)full of [a]trouble.

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  1. Job 14:1 turmoil

17 Then to Adam He said, (A)“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree (B)of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

(C)“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
(D)In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall [a]bring forth for you,
And (E)you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 (F)In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
(G)For dust you are,
And (H)to dust you shall return.”

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  1. Genesis 3:18 cause to grow

13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but (A)God is faithful, (B)who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to [a]bear it.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:13 endure

15 (A)As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand.

16 And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And (B)what profit has he (C)who has labored for the wind?
17 All his days (D)he also eats in darkness,
And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.

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22 (A)For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?

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(A)You have set our iniquities before You,
Our (B)secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
For all our days have passed away in Your wrath;
We finish our years like a sigh.

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All things are [a]full of labor;
Man cannot express it.
(A)The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor the ear filled with hearing.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 1:8 wearisome

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