Job 19:10

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Job 24:20

“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

Job 1:13-19

Now there was a day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Job 2:7

So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome boils and agonizingly painful sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Job 6:11

“What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?
And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure?

Job 7:6

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.

Job 8:13-18

“So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the godless will perish,

Job 12:14

“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Job 17:11

“My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart;
The wishes of my heart [are broken].

Job 17:15

Where now is my hope?
And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?

Psalm 37:35-36

I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,

Psalm 88:13-18

But I have cried out to You, O Lord, for help;
And in the morning my prayer will come to You.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.

The Lord has become like an enemy;
He has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all its palaces;
He has destroyed its strongholds
And multiplied in the Daughter of Judah
Mourning and lamentation (expressions of grief).

2 Corinthians 4:8-9

We are pressured in every way [hedged in], but not crushed; perplexed [unsure of finding a way out], but not driven to despair;

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