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Job 7:19
Why won’t you leave me alone, at least long enough for me to swallow!
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Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
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Lamentations 3:3
He has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
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Lamentations 3:18-19
I cry out,“ My splendor is gone! Everything I had hoped for from the Lord is lost!”The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.
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Psalms 39:13
Leave me alone so I can smile again before I am gone and exist no more.
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Hebrews 12:11
No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening— it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
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Psalms 88:7
Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude
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Job 3:20
“ Oh, why give light to those in misery, and life to those who are bitter?
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Psalms 88:15-18
I have been sick and close to death since my youth. I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me. Your terrors have paralyzed me.They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long. They have engulfed me completely.You have taken away my companions and loved ones. Darkness is my closest friend.
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Job 27:2
“ I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty who has embittered my soul—