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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Job 5:7

Bird. Hebrew, "sparks fly up." (Haydock) --- You can no more then expect to pass unpunished, since it is impossible for man to be innocent! (Calmet) and, at any rate, labour is inevitable. (Menochius) --- We must gain our bread by the sweat of our brow. [Genesis iii. 19.] (Worthington)

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See also Job 5:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 5:7. _YET MAN IS BORN UNTO TROUBLE_] לעמל _leamal_, to _labour._ He must _toil_ and be _careful_; and if in the course of his labour he meet with trials and difficulties, he should rise supe...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YET MAN IS BORN UNTO TROUBLE - All this is connected with the sentiment in Job 5:8 ff. The meaning is, that “since afflictions are ordered by an intelligent Being, and since man is born unto trouble a...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 4-5 THE FIRST ADDRESS OF ELIPHAZ _ 1. He rebukes Job (Job 4:1)_ 2. The righteous are not cast off (Job 4:6) 3. An awe-inspiring vision (Job 4:12) 4. Experience and exhortation ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 5:1 contains the application of the principles just laid down. JOB 5:1. If the angels are imperfect, it is no use for Job to appeal to them as intercessors with God. Duhm, following Siegfried, re...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAN. Hebrew. _'Adam._ App-14. BORN UNTO TROUBLE, &C. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6. SPARKS. Hebrew sons of flame....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 5:1-7. Having laid this broad ground, Eliphaz proceeds to apply the principle to Job....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Turning to Job's murmurs against heaven, Eliphaz points to the unapproachable purity of God and the imperfection of all creatures, and warns Job against such complaints Having expressed his wonder th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Yet man is born unto trouble_ Rather, BUT MAN. The true explanation of affliction is now given, as the false explanation was denied in Job 5:6. The words "man is born unto trouble" mean, it is his na...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Eliphaz now sums up into an aphorism the great general principle which he seeks to illustrate in this section of his speech, ch. Job 4:12 to Job 5:7. It is that affliction is not accidental, nor a spo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ALTHOUGH AFFLICTION COMETH NOT, &C.— The Hebrew is rather, _For iniquity cometh not forth out of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; i.e._ "As the wickedness of men does not proce...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. The fate of the wicked (the foolish) is certain destruction. (Job 5:1-7) TEXT 5:1-7 5 Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou torn? 2 For vexation k...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _YET MAN IS BORN UNTO TROUBLE, AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD._ Yet - rather, Truly, or, But. Affliction does not come from chance, but is the appointment of God for sin - i:e., the original birth-sin of m...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:7 man (h-2) _ Adam_ . sparks (i-9) Lit. 'sons of the flame.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ (CONCLUDED) 1-5. Eliphaz warns Job that to show a resentful temper at God's dispensations is folly, and that fools never prosper....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 5 ELIPHAZ CONTINUES HIS FIR...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Here, Eliphaz linked his dream (Job 4:12-21) with his story (Job 5:1-5). If nobody is innocent, then everybody deserves troubles! So, Job could not be an innocent man. And Job deserved his troubles. E...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALTHOUGH AFFLICTION.... — These two verses are confessedly very difficult. It is hard to see also the connection between sparks flying upwards and man’s being born to trouble. It seems to give better...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־אָ֭דָם לְ עָמָ֣ל יוּלָּ֑ד וּ בְנֵי

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    VII. THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEEN Job 4:1; Job 5:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE ideas of sin and suffering against which the poem of Job was written come now dramatically into view. The belief of the three fr...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE BENEFITS OF CHASTISEMENT Job 5:1 In this chapter Eliphaz closes his first speech. He had already suggested that Job's sufferings were the result of some secret sin. It could not be otherwise acco...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Proceeding, Eliphaz asked Job to whom he would appeal, to which of the holy ones, that is, as against the truth which he had declared, or in defense of himself. In the light of evident guilt, all vexa...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Yet man is born unto (i) trouble, as the sparks fly upward. (i) Which declares that sin is always in our corrupt nature: for before sin it was not subject to pain and affliction....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? (2) For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. (3) I have seen the foolish ta...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Eliphaz Relying on Experience I. INTRODUCTION F. Job 5:1-3 (NKJV) "Call out now; Is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? 2 For wrath kills a foolish man, A...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YET MAN IS BORN UNTO TROUBLE,.... Or but b, after the negative follows the positive part of the assertion; before we have what is denied as the cause of affliction, here what it is affirmed to be, or...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Ver. 7. _Yet man is born unto trouble_] Which is the natural fruit of his sin; and a piece of the curse. He hath in him a πανσπερμια, a common...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Yet man is born to trouble_, &c. He is so commonly exposed to various troubles, as if he were born to no other end: affliction is become natural to man, and is transmitted from parents to children, a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    yet man is born unto trouble, man, being enticed by his own lust, inherited since the time of Adam, commits sin and as a consequence brings misery upon himself, AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD, carried up on...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ANSWERING A POSSIBLE OBJECTION ON JOB'S PART...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    FURTHER OBSERVATIONS BY ELIPHAZ (vv.1-27) Eliphaz suggests to Job that he call out to creatures for help, even to holy ones - holy men or angels, - and see if anyone will answer him (v.1). He is imp...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TROUBLE: Or, labour THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD: _ Heb._ the sons of the burning coal, lift up to fly...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "FOR MAN IS BORN FOR TROUBLE, AS SPARKS FLY UPWARDS": "Man is born for trouble as certainly as flames from an open fire fly upwards. Eliphaz's view that man by his sin brings trouble on himself, thoug...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. He is so commonly exposed to many and various troubles, as if he were born to no other end. Affliction is become in some sort natural and proper to man, and it is, together with sin, transmitted...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 5:7 man H120 born H3205 (H8795) trouble H5999 As H1121 sparks H7565 fly H5774 (H8800) upward...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Eliphaz's discourse continued. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: Even Satan may be God's servant to make better saints of us, the blow at the outward man proving the greatest bles...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 5:1. _To which of the saints wilt thou turn?_ Men in anguish look every way for help, but how can either angel or departed spirit of the just help us, without a special command from heaven. Men sh...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Affliction cometh not forth of the dust._ HUMAN SUFFERING “Affliction comet, h not forth of the dust, nor doth trouble spring out of the ground.” The liability of man to suffering is one of the most...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Call now, if there be any that will answer thee._ MORAL EVIL AS VIEWED BY AN ENLIGHTENED NATURAL RELIGIONIST How does Eliphaz appear to view sin? I. As excluding the sinner from the sympathy of the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 5:6 Returning to his agricultural comparison in Job 4:8, Eliphaz argues that AFFLICTION and TROUBLE do not grow out of the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ.—CONTINUED_ I. Application of the Vision (Job 5:1). “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints (‘holy ones’—probably _angels_, as Job 15:...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 5:1 Eliphaz, having narrated his vision, and rehearsed the words which the spirit spoke in his ear, continues in his own person, first (Job 5:1) covertly reproaching Job, and then (ver...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Call now (Job 5:1), Eliphaz is saying to Job. if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will thou turn? (Job 5:1) Now it would seem that maybe in those days there were those...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:13; Ecclesiastes 1:8; Ecclesiastes 2:22; Ecclesiastes 5:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Is born — He is so commonly exposed to various troubles, as if he were born to no other end: affliction is become natural to man, and is transmitted from parents, to children, as their constant inheri...

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