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Job 7:3
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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Job 1:15-19
and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”While he was yet speaking, there came another and said,“ The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”While he was yet speaking, there came another and said,“ The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”While he was yet speaking, there came another and said,“ Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
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Proverbs 3:11-12
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof,for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
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Micah 6:13
Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.
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Job 29:5-25
when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.Then I thought,‘ I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’“ Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
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Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
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Psalms 6:6-7
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.
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Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
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Job 7:16
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
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Job 10:1
“ I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.