Job 5:7

Eliphaz's Response Continues

⁶ For distress does not grow out of the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
⁷ But mankind is born for trouble
as surely as sparks fly upward. ⁸ However, if I were you, I would appeal to God
and would present my case to Him.

Man is Born to Trouble

Job

Job 14:1

Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.

Genesis 3:17-19

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

Psalm 90:8-9

You have set our unjust ways before You,
our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome;
man is unable to speak.
The eye is not satisfied by seeing
or the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does a man get with all his work and all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 5:15-17

As he came from his mother’s womb, so he will go again, naked as he came; he will take nothing for his efforts that he can carry in his hands.

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape so that you are able to bear it.