Quotes About Suffering

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

Then Job answered:

I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

Then Job answered:

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.