Quotes about Suffering
And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
— Job 2:8
Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
— Job 2:9
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
— Job 2:10
When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
— Job 2:12
Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
— Job 2:13
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
— Job 3:1
And this is what he said:
— Job 3:2
“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
— Job 3:3
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
— Job 3:11
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
— Job 3:20
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
— Job 5:5
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
— Job 5:6