Quotes about Survival
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
— Job 24:5
Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
— Job 24:7
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
— Job 24:8
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
— Job 30:3
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
— Job 30:4
so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
— Job 30:6
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
— Job 30:7
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
— Job 30:29
to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
— Job 33:18
Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
— Job 39:4
His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”
— Job 39:30
They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
— Psalm 56:6