Quotes About Despair

They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.

A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip 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.

I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

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

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.