Quotes about Suffering

And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”

After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and put to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.

You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,