Quotes About Faith

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

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

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.

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.

Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

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

You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

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

They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

Then Job answered:

Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.