Quotes About Loss

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

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

The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ëI never saw you.í

If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

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

as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a manís hope.

He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

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

He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

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

My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

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

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.