Vexation (36 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. (KJV WBS)

1 Samuel 1:16 Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto. (See JPS RSV)

2 Chronicles 29:8 Therefore the wrath of Jehovah has been upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to vexation, to desolation, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes. (DBY)

Job 5:2 For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one. (ASV DBY RSV)

Job 6:2 Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances! (See JPS ASV RSV)

Job 10:17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. (See RSV)

Job 17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. (See JPS)

Psalms 6:7 Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries. (See JPS)

Psalms 10:14 Thou hast seen it ; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless. (See JPS DBY NAS RSV)

Psalms 31:9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea , my soul and my body. (See JPS DBY)

Proverbs 12:16 A fool's vexation is presently known; But a prudent man concealeth shame. (See JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him. (See JPS)

Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than they both. (See JPS ASV DBY)

Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. (KJV WBS YLT)

Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. (KJV WBS YLT)

Ecclesiastes 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. (See JPS DBY RSV)

Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. (KJV WBS YLT)

Ecclesiastes 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. (KJV WBS YLT)

Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? (KJV WBS)

Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days are but'sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. (See JPS DBY RSV)

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. (KJV WBS YLT)

Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. (KJV WBS YLT)

Ecclesiastes 4:16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit. (KJV WBS YLT)

Ecclesiastes 5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath. (See JPS DBY NAS RSV)

Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. (KJV WBS YLT)

Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad. (See JPS DBY)

Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools. (DBY)

Ecclesiastes 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. (See JPS RSV)

Isaiah 9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. (KJV)

Isaiah 28:19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. (KJV WBS)

Isaiah 65:14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Jeremiah 2:27 Saying to wood, 'My father 'art' thou!' And to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, 'Arise Thou, and save us.' (YLT)

Jeremiah 2:28 And where 'are' thy gods, that thou hast made to thyself? Let them arise, if they may save thee, In the time of thy vexation, For -- the number of thy cities have been thy gods, O Judah, (YLT)

Jeremiah 4:18 Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This 'is' thy vexation, for 'it is' bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart. (YLT)

Jeremiah 11:12 And the cities of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem have gone, And they have cried unto the gods, To whom they are making perfume, And they give no deliverance at all to them, In the time of their vexation. (YLT)

Jeremiah 11:14 And thou, thou dost not pray for this people, Nor dost thou lift up for them cry and prayer, For I do not hearken in the time of their calling unto Me for their vexation. (YLT)

Vexation (36 Occurrences)
... suit. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. VEX, VEXATION. veks ... etc. WL Walker.
Multi-Version Concordance Vexation (36 Occurrences). Deuteronomy ...
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Vex (20 Occurrences)
... to tease. 3. (vt) To twist; to weave. 4. (vi) To be irritated; to fret.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. VEX, VEXATION. veks, vek ...
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Grief (252 Occurrences)
... the same word is rendered "wrath" in 12:16, the King James Version "a fool's wrath,"
the Revised Version (British and American) "vexation"; so also Proverbs 27 ...
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Grieve (29 Occurrences)
... the same word is rendered "wrath" in 12:16, the King James Version "a fool's wrath,"
the Revised Version (British and American) "vexation"; so also Proverbs 27 ...
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Laboured (34 Occurrences)
... 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour
that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit ...
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Trouble (477 Occurrences)
... 4. (a.) Troubled; dark; gloomy. 5. (n.) The state of being troubled;
disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity. 6. (vt ...
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Mischief (64 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused
by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity ...
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Chafe (1 Occurrence)
... 6. (vi) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. 7.
(n.) Heat excited by friction. ... 9. (n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. ...
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Travail (54 Occurrences)
... This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. ... Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is an handful
with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. ...
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Preacher (27 Occurrences)
... This is equally the meaning of the text, whether we translate "vanity and vexation
of spirit" or "vanity and a striving after wind," ("emptiness, and ...
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2559. kakoo -- to ill-treat
... afflict, embitter, make angry. Cognate: 2559 -- to inflict (ill-treatment,
vexation); to harm, injure. See 2556 (). Word Origin from ...
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24. aganaktesis -- indignation
... Feminine Transliteration: aganaktesis Phonetic Spelling: (ag-an-ak'-tay-sis) Short
Definition: indignation Definition: feeling of anger, indignation, vexation. ...
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929. basanismos -- torture
... Cognate: 929 torment (vexation) -- ; subjective agony that corresponds to an basis --
ie as the "torment-rack" proves (reveals) the real "state of affairs" (cf ...
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3077. lupe -- pain of body or mind, grief, sorrow
... affliction. 3077 -- properly, distress, vexation; (figuratively) physical
or emotional pain; (grief) that . Word Origin a prim. ...
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3636. okneros -- shrinking, timid, hence idle, lazy, troublesome
... The idea of 'delay' underlies the secondary sense, 'burdensome, troublesome.' It
is the vexation arising from weary waiting, and which appears in the middle ...
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