Quotes about Bitterness
Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.
- Paul David Tripp
The real burdens of suffering are made significantly more difficult when you carry them in a heart spiritually weakened by bitterness.
- Paul David Tripp
The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.
- Genesis 49:23
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
- Exodus 15:23
“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
- Ruth 1:20
In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
- 1 Samuel 1:10
Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
- 1 Samuel 15:32
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
- 2 Samuel 1:17
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 3:20
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 7:11
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
- Job 9:18
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 10:1