Quotes about Suffering
And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
- Job 30:16
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
- Job 30:17
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- Job 30:19
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
- Job 30:20
You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
- Job 30:21
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- Job 30:23
I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
- Job 30:27
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
- Job 30:28
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- Job 30:30
then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
- Job 31:22
If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
- Job 31:29
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
- Job 31:40