Genesis 3:17

17And to Adam he said,

Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
aof which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
bcursed is the ground because of you;
cin pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

1 Kings 17:12

12And she said, d“As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

Job 21:25

25Another dies in ebitterness of soul,
never having tasted of prosperity.

Psalms 78:33

33So he made ftheir days gvanish like
Hebrew in
a breath,
Or vapor

and their years in terror.

Psalms 102:9

9For I eat ashes like bread
and jmingle tears with my drink,

Psalms 127:2

2It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious ktoil;
for he gives to his lbeloved msleep.

Ezekiel 4:16-17

16Moreover, he said to me, nSon of man, behold, oI will break the supply
Hebrew staff
of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread qby weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water rby measure and in dismay.
17I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and slook at one another in dismay, and trot away because of their punishment.

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