Quotes About Faith

Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

Though I cry out, ëViolence!í I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

If you say, ëLet us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,í

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of Godís wrath.

Then Job answered:

Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?