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Genesis 29:31
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.
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Genesis 37:11
His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.
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Job 5:2
For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.
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Job 3:11
“ Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
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John 4:8
( For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless– like chasing the wind.
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Numbers 11:15
But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.Cursed be the man who made my father very glad when he brought him the news that a baby boy had been born to him!May that man be like the cities that the LORD destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.
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James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
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Job 3:1-3
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.Job spoke up and said:“ Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘ A man has been conceived!’
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1 Samuel 1 4-1 Samuel 1 8
Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.But he would give a double portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her. Now the LORD had not enabled her to have children.Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, for the LORD had not enabled her to have children.Peninnah would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the LORD’s house, Peninnah would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.Finally her husband Elkanah said to her,“ Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
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1 Corinthians 3 3
for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
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James 4:5
Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“ The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?
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John 4:3
he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.
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1 Kings 19 4
while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the LORD to take his life:“ I’ve had enough! Now, O LORD, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”
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Psalms 106:16
In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest.
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Job 3:20-22
“ Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
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2 Corinthians 7 10
For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.
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Genesis 35:16-19
They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor– and her labor was hard.When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her,“ Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.”With her dying breath, she named him Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath( that is, Bethlehem).
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Galatians 5:21
envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
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Numbers 11:29
Moses said to him,“ Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”
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Proverbs 14:30
A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.
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Job 13:19
Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.
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Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.