Quotes about Despair
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
- Job 19:17
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
- Job 19:19
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
- Job 21:25
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
- Job 24:16
For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
- Job 24:17
And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
- Job 30:16
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- Job 30:19
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
- Job 30:20
so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
- Job 33:20
For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
- Psalm 22:1
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalm 22:14
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
- Psalm 38:6