Quotes about Suffering
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
— Job 30:23
I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
— Job 30:27
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
— Job 30:28
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
— Job 30:30
then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
— Job 31:22
If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
— Job 31:29
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
— Job 31:40
He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
— Job 33:11
A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
— Job 33:19
so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
— Job 33:20
His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
— Job 33:21
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
— Job 34:5