Quotes about Despair
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
- Job 7:5
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 7:6
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Job 7:15
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- Job 7:16
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
- Job 9:18
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
- Job 9:23
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
- Job 9:31
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 10:1
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
- Job 10:18
If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 10:19
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- Job 11:20
as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
- Job 14:19