Ecclesiastes 2:23
All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is vanity.
Job 5:7
A person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.
Job 14:1
Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.
Psalm 127:2
It is vain to work hard for the food you eat by getting up early and going to bed late. Jehovah gives food to those he loves while they sleep.
Genesis 47:9
Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.
Esther 6:1
That night the king was unable to get any sleep. He sent for the books of the records and had some one was read them to him.
Job 7:13-14
When I think: 'My bed will comfort me, and I will try to forget my misery with sleep,
Psalm 6:6-7
I am worn out from groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Psalm 32:4
Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength drained in the summer heat.
Psalm 77:2-4
In the day of my trouble I sought Jehovah. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. I refused to be comforted.
Psalm 90:7-10
Your anger consumes us. We are troubled by your rage.
Psalm 90:15
Make us rejoice for as many days as you have made us suffer, for as many years as we have experienced evil.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
In much wisdom there is much grief for he who increases knowledge increases pain.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of the workingman is pleasant, whether he eats little or much. However the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.
Daniel 6:18
The king went to his palace and did not eat. He refused musical entertainment and he could not sleep.
Acts 14:22
They strengthened the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith. They said, We must enter the kingdom of God through much tribulation.