Verse 7

But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.

Referenced Verses

• Job 14:1 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.
• Gen 3:17-19 : 17 Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voyce of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eate of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life. 18 Thornes also, and thistles shall it bring foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the herbe of the fielde. 19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.
• 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no tentation taken you, but such as appertaine to man: and God is faithfull, which will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you be able, but wil euen giue the issue with the tentation, that ye may be able to beare it.
• Ps 90:8-9 : 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought.
• Eccl 1:8 : 8 All things are full of labour: man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.
• Eccl 2:22 : 22 For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?
• Eccl 5:15-17 : 15 (5:14) As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shal beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand. 16 (5:15) And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde? 17 (5:16) Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.