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Lamentations 5:12
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Job 5:3–5
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Ecclesiastes 10:6–8
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Job 19:8–10
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Psalms 89:38–40
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Job 14:20–22
20 You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away. 21 If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware. 22 He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”
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