Job 3:17

3:17 There the wicked cease from turmoil,

and there the weary are at rest.

Job 7:3

7:3 thus I have been made to inherit

months of futility,

and nights of sorrow

have been appointed to me.

Job 7:16

7:16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever;

leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

Job 10:1

An Appeal for Revelation

10:1 “I am weary of my life;

I will complain without restraint;

I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Psalms 6:6-7

6:6 I am exhausted as I groan;

all night long I drench my bed in tears;

my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

6:7 My eyes grow dim from suffering;

they grow weak because of all my enemies.

Proverbs 3:11-12

3:11 My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord,

and do not loathe his rebuke.

3:12 For the Lord disciplines those he loves,

just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

Isaiah 50:4

The Servant Perseveres

50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman,

so that I know how to help the weary.

He wakes me up every morning;

he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.

Micah 6:13

6:13 I will strike you brutally

and destroy you because of your sin.