Quotes About Endurance

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

Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.

“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Job continued his discourse:

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.í

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Suppose someone says to God, ëI have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.

Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.

“Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.

His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.