Bible Verses About Afflicted Saints: Should trust in the goodness of God

Look, he will kill me - I don't expect more, but I will still defend my ways to his face.

You have made me see much trouble and hardship, but you will revive me again and bring me up from the depths of the earth.

In our hearts we felt we were under sentence of death. However, this was to get us to rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead!