Quotes About Endurance

Then Job replied:

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.

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

I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.

You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

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.

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

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

Then Job answered:

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

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

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

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.