Quotes about Loss
The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
— Job 20:9
The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
— Job 20:28
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
— Job 22:16
His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
— Job 27:15
He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
— Job 27:19
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
— Job 30:15
For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.
— Job 31:12
I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
— Psalm 35:14
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
— Psalm 37:36
You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
— Psalm 44:10
He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
— Psalm 78:48
Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
— Psalm 78:63