Quotes About Hope

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

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.

so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.

as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a manís hope.

Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?

he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of Godís mouth will carry him away.

Then Job answered:

But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

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

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

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

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

My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.