Quotes About Suffering

There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.

The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,

who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

Then Job replied:

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?

For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.

Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.