Ecclesiastes 2:20
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20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.
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1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
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3 (A)that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that (B)we are appointed to this. 4 (C)For, in fact, we told you before when we were with you that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and you know.
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2 Corinthians 1:8-10
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Delivered from Suffering
8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of (A)our [a]trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. 9 Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should (B)not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, 10 (C)who delivered us from so great a death, and [b]does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,
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- 2 Corinthians 1:8 tribulation
- 2 Corinthians 1:10 NU shall
1 Corinthians 15:19
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19 (A)If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
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Psalm 39:6-7
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6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they [a]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
7 “And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My (A)hope is in You.
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- Psalm 39:6 make an uproar for nothing
Job 17:11-15
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11 (A)My days are past,
My purposes are broken off,
Even the [a]thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day;
‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
13 If I wait for the grave as my house,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
14 If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
15 Where then is my (B)hope?
As for my hope, who can see it?
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- Job 17:11 desires
Genesis 43:14
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14 And may God (A)Almighty (B)give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother and Benjamin. (C)If I am bereaved, I am bereaved!”
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