17 occurrences

'Vexation' in the Bible

“For anger slays the foolish man,And jealousy kills the simple (naive).

“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighedAnd placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

You have seen it, for You have noted mischief and vexation (irritation) to take it into Your hand.The unfortunate commits himself to You;You are the helper of the fatherless.

For the wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil;And they are deprived of sleep unless they make someone stumble and fall.

Great and priceless treasure is in the house of the [consistently] righteous one [who seeks godly instruction and grows in wisdom],But trouble is in the income of the wicked one [who rejects the laws of God].

For what does a man get from all his labor and from the striving and sorrow of his heart with which he labors under the sun?

For all his days his work is painful and sorrowful; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity (worthless).

“Indeed, My servants will shout for joy from a happy heart,But you will cry out with a heavy heart,And you shall wail and howl from a broken spirit.

Do they offend and provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord. “Is it not themselves [they offend], to their own shame?”

After looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness and arrogance of their hearts, He told the man, “Hold out your hand.” And he held it out, and his hand was [completely] restored.

And those [non-believers] who live on the earth will gloat over them and rejoice; and they will send gifts [in celebration] to one another, because these two prophets tormented and troubled those who live on the earth.

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זועה 
Z@va`ah 
Usage: 1

מהוּמה 
M@huwmah 
Usage: 12

מוּצק מוּצק 
Muwtsaq 
Usage: 3

רעוּת 
R@`uwth 
Usage: 7

רעיון 
Ra`yown 
Usage: 3

שׁבר שׁבר 
Sheber 
Usage: 44