Job 17:12


“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].

Deuteronomy 28:67

In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.

Job 7:3-4


So am I allotted months of futility and suffering,
And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.

Job 7:13-14


“When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’

Job 24:14-16


“The murderer rises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he becomes a thief.

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They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

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Job 7:3

So am I allotted months of futility and suffering,
And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.
Job 24:14

“The murderer rises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he becomes a thief.
Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.

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Ecclesiastes 2:20
So I turned aside and let my heart despair over all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.
Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In mid-life
I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead),
I am to be summoned, deprived of the remainder of my years.”