Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
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Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
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Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.
Isaiah 53:2
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Joel 2:16
Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her chamber.
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Job 3:4
Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
Job 3:6
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
Job 3:7
Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
Job 3:8
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
Job 23:17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Job 7:20
If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 16:12
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
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Job 4:4
Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
Job 4:6
Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
Job 4:14
fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
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Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalms 90:7
For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
Psalms 90:8
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Psalms 90:9
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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Job 30:27
My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
Psalms 21:3
For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
Psalms 79:8
Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Psalms 88:13
But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
Psalms 95:2
Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
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Job 36:24
“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
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Isaiah 66:11
that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”
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Job 10:18
“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Job 10:19
I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Psalms 58:8
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;
Ecclesiastes 6:4
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.
Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Jeremiah 20:17
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Lamentations 4:3
Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 16:5
No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
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