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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Genesis 3:18
It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Job 5:6
For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Job 5:7
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Job 7:7
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Job 14:2
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Job 14:3
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

Psalms 78:33
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Isaiah 26:18
We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

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Genesis 37:4
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

Genesis 37:11
His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

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Genesis 37:35
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

Genesis 42:38
He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Genesis 44:29
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

Genesis 44:31
it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

1 Kings 2:6
Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

Psalms 71:18
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Isaiah 38:10
I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Isaiah 46:4
Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

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Ruth 4:6
The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”

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1 Kings 4:30
Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 4:31
For he was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations all around.

1 Kings 4:32
He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered one thousand five.

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Ezra 5:17
Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so that a decree was made by Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”

Ezra 7:18
Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God.

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1 Kings 21:4
Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

1 Kings 21:5
But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad that you eat no bread?”

1 Kings 21:6
He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’ ”

Esther 5:13
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Job 15:20
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

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Job 29:2
“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

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Psalms 37:3
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Proverbs 15:14
The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Haggai 2:19
Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

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Proverbs 12:8
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

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Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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Proverbs 27:16
restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.

Jeremiah 5:13
The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”

Micah 2:11
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink,” he would be the prophet of this people.

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Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 2:10
Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:12
I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:2
a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

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Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

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Job 34:29
When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Isaiah 24:5
The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 24:6
Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Romans 8:21
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

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Psalms 55:6
I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

Psalms 55:7
Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.

Psalms 55:8
“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”

Psalms 55:9
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Psalms 55:10
Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

Psalms 55:11
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.

Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

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Ezekiel 3:14
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

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1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

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2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.

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Luke 10:40
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”

Luke 10:41
Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,

Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Luke 12:29
“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

John 6:15
Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

John 17:16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Philippians 3:8
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Philippians 4:11
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

Philippians 4:12
I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Hebrews 2:8
You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t yet see all things subjected to him.

Hebrews 2:9
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

1 Peter 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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Exodus 39:43
Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.

Proverbs 10:25
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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