Man Is Born To Trouble

Job 5:1,4-7 – “Call if you will, but who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?...His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender. The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth. For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground. Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Job 20:18 – What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.

Job 15:35 – They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”

Song of Songs 8:6 – Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

Application:

• ·         “What he toiled for…he will not enjoy” was a common theme in wisdom literature.
• ·         Unlike a weed, trouble must be sown and cultivated.
• ·          “Man is born to trouble” is proof that no one is righteous in the eyes of God.
• ·         Once initiated, sinful thoughts develop quickly into evil acts.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV