Quotes About Pain

“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”

And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.

This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.

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

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

“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.

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.

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

How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.