Ecclesiastes 5:17
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17 Besides, all their days they eat in darkness, in much anger and sickness and resentment.(A)
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Psalm 127:2
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2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil,
for he gives sleep to his beloved.[a](A)
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- 127.2 Or for he provides for his beloved during sleep
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
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30 For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.[a] 31 But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged.(A) 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined[b] so that we may not be condemned along with the world.(B)
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Acts 12:23
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23 And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.(A)
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Ezekiel 4:16-17
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16 Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread[a] in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.(A) 17 Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay and waste away under their punishment.(B)
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- 4.16 Heb staff of bread
Proverbs 1:27-29
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27 when panic strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.(A)
29 Because they hated knowledge
and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
Psalm 102:9
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9 Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
and mingle tears with my drink,(A)
Psalm 90:7-11
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7 For we are consumed by your anger;
by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your countenance.(A)
9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
our years come to an end[a] like a sigh.(B)
10 The days of our life are seventy years
or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span[b] is only toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.(C)
11 Who considers the power of your anger?
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.(D)
Psalm 78:33
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33 So he made their days vanish like a breath
and their years in terror.(A)
Job 21:25
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25 Another dies in bitterness of soul,
never having tasted of good.
2 Chronicles 24:24-25
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24 Although the army of Aram had come with few men, the Lord delivered into their hand a very great army because they had abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.(A)
25 When they had withdrawn, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son[a] of the priest Jehoiada, and they killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.(B)
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- 24.25 Gk Vg: Heb sons
2 Chronicles 16:10-12
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10 Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks, in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties on some of the people at the same time.
Asa’s Disease and Death
11 The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.(A) 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe; yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord but sought help from physicians.(B)
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2 Kings 5:27
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27 Therefore the skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he left his presence diseased, as white as snow.(A)
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2 Kings 1:6
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6 They answered him, “There came a man to meet us, who said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and say to him: Thus says the Lord: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not leave the bed to which you have gone but shall surely die.’ ”
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2 Kings 1:2
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2 Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured, so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.”(A)
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1 Kings 17:12
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12 But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”(A)
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Genesis 3:17
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17 And to the man[a] he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
about which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;(A)
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- 3.17 Or to Adam
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