Quotes About Suffering

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

Then Job answered:

“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

Though I cry out, ëViolence!í I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.