Quotes About Suffering

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

and he burned with anger against Jobís three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.í

to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.

He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

For Job has declared, ëI am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.í

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.

Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,

The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

And the LORD said to Job:

Then Job answered the LORD:

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

Then Job replied to the LORD:

So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Jobís request.