Quotes About Loss

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

His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

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

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

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

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

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.

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

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

They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.