Quotes About Struggle

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

Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.

deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthlessí?

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

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

Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

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

Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.

For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

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

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.

Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.