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Genesis 47:8

²⁹ And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

⁸ How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

¹² How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

¹⁷ If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

¹ Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;

¹⁵ And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

⁴ And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

¹² And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?

⁶ For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

² How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

⁴⁰ How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

³ I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

⁷ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

¹⁷ For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.

¹⁶ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.