Quotes about Rejection
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
- Job 17:6
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
- Job 19:13
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
- Job 19:17
Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
- Job 19:18
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- Job 21:14
They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
- Job 22:17
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
- Job 30:1
They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
- Job 30:5
They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
- Job 30:10
so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
- Job 33:20
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
- Psalm 22:6
Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.
- Psalm 31:11