Quotes About Hope

saying: “Naked I came from my motherís womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

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

Then Jobís wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

Now when Jobís three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

And this is what he said:

“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ëA boy is conceived.í

If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.

The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,

who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.