Proverbs 16:5  Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; Assuredly, he will not be unpunished.

Isaiah 64:8,9  But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand. • Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.

Jeremiah 31:18,19  "I have surely heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained calf; Bring me back that I may be restored, For You are the LORD my God. • For after I turned back, I repented; And after I was instructed, I smote on my thigh; I was ashamed and also humiliated Because I bore the reproach of my youth.'

Lamentations 3:27  It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.

Job 5:6,7,  "For affliction does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble sprout from the ground, • For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward.

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