Quotes About Resilience

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

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;

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

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

Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

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

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

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

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

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

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

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

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

Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.

The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.í

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

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

The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.