For troubles surround me—too many to count! They pile up so high I can’t see my way out. They are more numerous than the hairs on my head. I have lost all my courage. - Psalm 40:12

Even now my witness is in heaven. My advocate is there on high. - Job 16:19

If a tree is cut down, there is hope that it will sprout again and grow new branches. - Job 14:7

If only there were a mediator who could bring us together, but there is none. - Job 9:33

When you meet, one will sing, another will teach, another will tell some special revelation God has given, one will speak in an unknown language, while another will interpret what is said. But everything that is done must be useful to all and build them up in the Lord. - 1 Corinthians 14:26

The wicked plot against the godly; they snarl at them in defiance. - Psalm 37:12

Don’t worry about the wicked. Don’t envy those who do wrong. For like grass, they soon fade away. Like springtime flowers, they soon wither. - Psalm 37:1-2

If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad. - 1 Corinthians 12:26

When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or show him respect, he was filled with rage. So he decided it was not enough to lay hands on Mordecai alone. Since he had learned that Mordecai was a Jew, he decided to destroy all the Jews throughout the entire empire of Xerxes. - Esther 3:5-6

. . . Eliashib the priest, who had been appointed as supervisor of the storerooms of the Temple of our God and who was also a relative of Tobiah, had converted a large storage room and placed it at Tobiah’s disposal. - Nehemiah 13:4-5