Quotes About Suffering

He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

If you say, ëLet us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,í

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.

Then Job answered:

Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.