Quotes about Struggle
All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
— Proverbs 19:7
“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
— Proverbs 23:35
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
Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
— Proverbs 27:4
restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.
— Proverbs 27:16
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
— Proverbs 30:14
an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
— Proverbs 30:23
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
— Ecclesiastes 2:17
So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 2:20
Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 2:23
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
— Ecclesiastes 4:1