Quotes About Suffering

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

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?

Then Job answered:

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

It is all the same, and so I say, ëHe destroys both the blameless and the wicked.í

When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?