Isaiah 26:18
We were pregnant, writhing in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not won your victory on earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world been born."
Psalm 17:14
from men, LORD, by your hand from men who belong to this world, whose reward is only in this life. But as for your treasured ones, may their stomachs be full, may their children have an abundance, and may they leave wealth to their offspring.
Exodus 5:22-23
So Moses returned to the LORD and asked him, "LORD, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why have you sent me here?
Joshua 7:7-9
"Lord GOD," Joshua asked, "Why have you brought this people across the Jordan River? To hand us over to the Amorites so we'll be destroyed? Wouldn't it have been better for us to be content to settle on the other side of the Jordan?
1 Samuel 11:13
But Saul said, "Let no one be put to death this day, because today the LORD has delivered Israel."
1 Samuel 14:45
Then the army told Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who brought about this great deliverance in Israel? As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head will fall to the ground, because today he did this with God's help."
2 Kings 19:3
They announced to him:
Isaiah 33:11
You conceive dried grass, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
Isaiah 37:3
"Here is what Hezekiah says," they told him. "This day is a day of trouble, rebuke, and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no energy to deliver them.
Isaiah 59:4
No one brings a lawsuit fairly, and no one goes to law honestly; they have relied on empty arguments and they tell lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.
Hosea 13:13
When the time of childbirth comes, he will be so foolish that he will refuse to be born."
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.