Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

Esther 8:6

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Exodus 18:8

Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that confronted them on the way, and how the Lord delivered them.

1 Samuel 2:33-34

Any man from your family I do not cut off from My altar will bring grief and sadness to you. All your descendants will die violently.

‘I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place and on its inhabitants.’”

Then they reported to the king.

Job 31:29

Have I rejoiced over my enemy’s distress,
or become excited when trouble came his way?

Psalm 116:3

The ropes of death were wrapped around me,
and the torments of Sheol overcame me;
I encountered trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 119:143

Trouble and distress have overtaken me,
but Your commands are my delight.

Jeremiah 52:10-11

At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes and also slaughtered the Judean commanders.

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Genesis 44:34

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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Any man from your family I do not cut off from My altar will bring grief and sadness to you. All your descendants will die violently.

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes and also slaughtered the Judean commanders.