Job 3:20 "Why is light given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul,

Job 5:7 For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward.

Job 14:1 "Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Psalm 69:19 You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; All my adversaries are before You.

Psalm 90:9 For all our days have declined in Your fury; We have finished our years like a sigh.

Psalm 102:3 For my days have been consumed in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

Jeremiah 3:25 "Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me, Yet everyone curses me.

Lamentations 3:1 I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.

1 Corinthians 4:9 For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. (NASB ©1995)