9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Eccl 5:17 — All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
• Jer 8:18 — When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
• Jer 15:18 — Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
• Job 10:15 — If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
• Job 23:8 — Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
• Lam 1:5 — Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
• Mic 7:8 — Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
• Prov 15:13 — A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
• Ps 25:2 — O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
• Ps 31:10 — For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
• Ps 123:3 — Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
• Ps 142:4 — I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
• Ps 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.