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Quotes About Survival

In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
~ Esther 9:6
On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
~ Esther 9:15
The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
~ Esther 9:16
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
~ Job 4:11
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
~ Job 18:19
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
~ Job 19:20
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
~ Job 24:5
They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
~ Job 24:6
Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
~ Job 24:7
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
~ Job 24:8
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
~ Job 24:9
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
~ Job 24:10
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
~ Job 30:3
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
~ Job 30:4
so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
~ Job 30:6
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
~ Job 30:7
Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
~ Job 38:39
when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
~ Job 38:40
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
~ Job 39:6
For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
~ Job 39:14
She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
~ Job 39:15
His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”
~ Job 39:30
like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
~ Psalm 17:12
They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
~ Psalm 59:15