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Job 5:7Job.5.7

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

L'homme naît pour souffrir, Comme l'étincelle pour voler.

KJV

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    e who do not themselves work on the land, are busied with other labors, for "man is born to labor" ( Job 5:7 ): and thus they eat the bread for which others have labored in the sweat of their brow. Reply to Objection 4: Although the place of the earthly paradise avails not man fo…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)

    rosperitas in hoc praesenti saeculo inveniri valet, quia in exsilio sumus, et ad laborem nascimur (Job. V, 7) . Et sicut flagella infantes erudiunt ad discendum sapientiae decus, vel bonis assuescere moribus, ita et nos laboribus et doloribus admonemur ad perpetuae beatitudinis…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    non credidit. Avis, anima hominis, ut in Job: «Et avis nascitur ad volandum [Note: [Col. 0871] 14 Job V, 7.] ,» quod anima pura in contemplatione se extendit. Avis, instabilis quisque, ut in Parabolis: «Avis transmigrat de loco suo [Note: [Col. 0871] 15 Prov. XXVII, 8.] ,» qu…

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