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Psalms 39:6-7
Certainly every person walks around as a fleeting shadow; They certainly make an uproar for nothing; He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.“ And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
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Job 17:11-15
My days are past, my plans are torn apart, The wishes of my heart.They make night into day, saying,‘ The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;If I call to the grave,‘ You are my father’; To the maggot,‘ my mother and my sister’;Where then is my hope? And who looks at my hope?
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Genesis 43:14
and may God Almighty grant you compassion in the sight of the man, so that he will release to you your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my sons, I am bereaved!”
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2 Corinthians 1 8-2 Corinthians 1 10
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction which occurred in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,who rescued us from so great a danger of death, and will rescue us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,
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1 Thessalonians 3 3-1 Thessalonians 3 4
so that no one would be disturbed by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we have been destined for this.For even when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it happened, as you know.
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1 Corinthians 15 19
If we have hoped in Christ only in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied.