Quotes about Adversity
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
- Job 30:22
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
- Job 30:26
For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
- Job 31:23
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
- Job 31:40
He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
- Job 33:11
If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
- Job 34:36
And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
- Job 36:8
All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
- Job 42:11
A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
- Psalm 3:1
I will not fear the myriads set against me on every side.
- Psalm 3:6
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
- Psalm 11:3
lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.
- Psalm 13:4