Quotes about Adversity

“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.

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Then Job replied:

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

Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

Then Job answered:

For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.