Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.

man.

Job 14:1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Genesis 3:17-19 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. . . .

Psalm 90:8,9 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:13 Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

trouble.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 5:15-17 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour. . . .

sparks fly upward.