Quotes About Hope

Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

Then Job replied:

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

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

What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

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

Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.

They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.

For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.