Quotes About Suffering

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Then Job answered:

“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Then Job answered:

Job continued his discourse:

“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

And Job continued his discourse:

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.