Quotes About Perseverance

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?

Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.

You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated.

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

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

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

Then Job answered:

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.

They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

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

A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!

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

I will not fear the myriads set against me on every side.

For the choirmaster. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.