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Genesis 4:13But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.Genesis 4:14Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”Genesis 21:15When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.Genesis 21:16Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.Exodus 4:1Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”Exodus 4:10“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”Exodus 4:13But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”Exodus 6:9Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.Exodus 6:12But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”Exodus 14:15Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”Numbers 17:12Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!Numbers 17:13Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”Deuteronomy 28:65Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.Deuteronomy 28:66So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.1 Kings 19:4while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”Job 3:1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.Job 3:2And this is what he said:Job 3:3“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’Job 3:4If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.Job 3:6If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.Job 3:7Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.Job 3:8May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.Job 3:11Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?Job 3:12Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest Job 3:14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,Job 3:15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?Job 3:17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.Job 3:18The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.Job 3:19Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,Job 3:21who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,Job 3:22who rejoice and greatly exult when they reach the grave?Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.Job 3:26I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?Job 17:16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”Psalm 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.Psalm 77:7“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?Psalm 77:8Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?Psalm 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.Isaiah 2:19Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!Isaiah 35:4Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”Jeremiah 2:25You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’Jeremiah 8:20“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”Jeremiah 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.Lamentations 3:2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.