Quotes About Loss

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

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.

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

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.

My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ëWhere is he?í

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.

He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.

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

In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of Godís wrath.

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

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.

The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.