Quotes About Despair

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

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?

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

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

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

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

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Then Job answered:

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.

He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

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

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!