Genesis 3:17
He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah. He said: He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.
Romans 8:20-22
For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it's own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.
Job 14:1
Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
What does a man get for all his work, and for the desire of his heart with which he has done his work under the sun?
Genesis 2:16-17
Jehovah God commanded the man: You are free to eat from any tree in the garden.
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:11
And he said: Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?
1 Samuel 15:23-24
The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.
Job 5:6-7
Affliction does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
Job 21:17
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains and sorrow in his anger?
Psalm 90:7-9
Your anger consumes us. We are troubled by your rage.
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.
Ecclesiastes 1:2-3
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:13-14
I devoted myself to study and explored wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens. It is a grievous task God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
I looked at all the works my hands accomplished. I saw everything I had worked to do. I saw that all was vanity and grasping for the wind. It was to no purpose for there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
I hated life. Everything under the sun was evil to me. All is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his days he eats in darkness. He has much sorrow and anger with his sickness.
Isaiah 24:5-6
The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 7:23-24
I gave them this command: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. You will walk in all the way that I command you that it may be well with you.'
Matthew 22:12
The king asked why did he not wear proper clothes for the wedding? But the guest had no excuse.
Matthew 25:26-27
But his lord answered: 'You wicked and lazy servant. You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter.
Matthew 25:45
The King will answer: 'To the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of my brothers, you did not do it to me.'
Luke 19:22
He said to him: Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow.
John 16:33
I spoke to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you have tribulation. Be of good cheer for I have conquered the world!
Romans 3:19
We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment.