Quotes about Adversity
Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
— Psalm 142:3
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
— Psalm 143:3
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
— Proverbs 6:11
All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
— Proverbs 15:15
An evil man seeks only rebellion; a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
— Proverbs 17:11
Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
— Proverbs 22:5
If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!
— Proverbs 24:10
For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
— Proverbs 24:16
Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
— Proverbs 25:19
Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
— Ecclesiastes 5:17
In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
— Ecclesiastes 7:14
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
— Ecclesiastes 12:1