Psalm 77:4
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4 You keep my eyelids from closing;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Job 7:13-15
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13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
my couch will ease my complaint,’
14 then you scare me with dreams
and terrify me with visions,(A)
15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than this body.
Psalm 6:6
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6 I am weary with my moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
Job 2:13
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13 They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.(A)
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Esther 6:1
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The King Honors Mordecai
6 On that night the king could not sleep, and he gave orders to bring the book of records, the annals, and they were read to the king.(A)
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Job 6:3
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3 For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
therefore my words have been rash.(A)
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