Quotes about Perseverance

For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

“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.

Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

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

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

Then Job replied:

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?