Quotes about Suffering
“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
- Job 3:3
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Job 3:11
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 3:20
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
- Job 5:5
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
- Job 5:6
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
- Job 5:7
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Job 5:18
Then Job replied:
- Job 6:1
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Job 6:4
that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
- Job 6:9
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
- Job 7:3
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
- Job 7:5