Quotes About Faith

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

Then Jobís wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Now when Jobís three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

And this is what he said:

If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

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

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

ëCan a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

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