Quotes about Suffering
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- Job 24:5
They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
- Job 24:11
From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
- Job 24:12
Then Job answered:
- Job 26:1
“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
- Job 27:2
His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
- Job 27:15
What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
- Job 30:2
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
- Job 30:3
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
- Job 30:7
They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
- Job 30:10
Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
- Job 30:11
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
- Job 30:15