Ecclesiastes 2:20
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20 So I turned and gave my heart up to despair concerning all the toil of my labors under the sun,(A)
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1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
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3 so that no one would be shaken by these persecutions. Indeed, you yourselves know that this is what we are destined for.(A) 4 In fact, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer persecution; so it turned out, as you know.
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2 Corinthians 1:8-10
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8 We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia, for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.(A) 9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He who rescued us from so deadly a peril will continue to rescue us;[a] on him we have set our hope that he will rescue us again,(B)
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- 1.10 Other ancient authorities read is rescuing us or lack the phrase
1 Corinthians 15:19
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19 If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
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Psalm 39:6-7
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6 Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
they heap up and do not know who will gather.(A)
7 “And now, O Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in you.(B)
Job 17:11-15
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11 My days are past; my plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.(A)
12 They make night into day;
‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’[a]
13 If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I spread my couch in darkness,(B)
14 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’(C)
15 where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?(D)
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- 17.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Genesis 43:14
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14 may God Almighty[a] grant you mercy before the man, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”(A)
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- 43.14 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
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