Quotes About Hope

Then Job answered:

“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

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

For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!

They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!

Job continued his discourse:

“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widowís heart sing for joy.

So I thought: ëI will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.í

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.