Quotes about Suffering
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
- Job 7:13
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
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
- Job 7:19
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
- Job 7:20
Then Job answered:
- Job 9:1
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Job 9:17
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
- Job 9:18
Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
- Job 9:21
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Job 9:22
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
- Job 9:23
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
- Job 9:27