Quotes About Resilience

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

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

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.

He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.

See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.

His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.

Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah

For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”

They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

They have tracked us down, and now surround us; their eyes are set to cast us to the ground,

They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.

They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.