Ecclesiastes 2:20
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20 So I (A)turned about and gave my heart up to despair (B)over all the toil of my labors under the sun,
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1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
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3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that (A)we are destined for this. 4 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, (B)just as it has come to pass, and just as you know.
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2 Corinthians 1:8-10
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8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers,[a] of (A)the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us (B)rely not on ourselves (C)but on God (D)who raises the dead. 10 (E)He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. (F)On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
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- 2 Corinthians 1:8 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
1 Corinthians 15:19
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19 If in Christ we have hope[a] in this life only, (A)we are of all people most to be pitied.
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- 1 Corinthians 15:19 Or we have hoped
Psalm 39:6-7
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6 Surely a man (A)goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
man (B)heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
7 “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
(C)My hope is in you.
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- Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath
Job 17:11-15
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11 My (A)days are past; my plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.
12 They (B)make night into day:
‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’[a]
13 If I hope for (C)Sheol as (D)my house,
if I make my bed in darkness,
14 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?
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- Job 17:12 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Genesis 43:14
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14 May (A)God Almighty[a] (B)grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, (C)if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
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- Genesis 43:14 Hebrew El Shaddai
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