Bible Verses About Afflictions

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pain in childbirth. You will bring forth children in pain. Your desire will be toward your husband, but he will rule over you.”

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to what your wife said and ate from the tree about which I gave you the order, ‘You are not to eat from it,’ the ground is cursed on your account; you will work hard to eat from it as long as you live.

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat field plants.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your forehead till you return to the ground — for you were taken out of it: you are dust, and you will return to dust.”

ADONAI said to Avram, "Know this for certain: your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves and held in oppression there four hundred years.

But I will also judge that nation, the one that makes them slaves. Afterwards, they will leave with many possessions.

You meant to do me harm, but God meant it for good -so that it would come about as it is today, with many people's lives being saved.

So they put slavemasters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built for Pharaoh the storage cities of Pitom and Ra'amses.

But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and expanded, until the Egyptians came to dread the people of Isra'el

and your children will wander about in the desert for forty years bearing the consequences of your prostitutions until the desert eats up your carcasses.

Think deeply about it: ADONAI was disciplining you, just as a man disciplines his child.

who led you through the vast and fearsome desert, with its poisonous snakes, scorpions and waterless, thirsty ground; who brought water out of flint rock for you;

who fed you in the desert with man, unknown to your ancestors; all the while humbling and testing you in order to do you good in the end -

However, because by this act you have so greatly blasphemed ADONAI, the child born to you must die."

While he was still speaking, the messenger arrived with this message from the king: "Here, this evil is from ADONAI. Why should I wait for ADONAI any longer?"

Now, after all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our deep guilt - and even so, you, our God, have punished us less than our sins deserve and have given us a surviving remnant -

What I see is that those who plow sin and sow trouble reap just that.

For misery does not come from the dust or trouble spring from the ground.

No, people are born for trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

"How happy the person whom God corrects! So don't despise Shaddai's discipline.

If he passes through, puts in prison and assembles [for judgment], who can prevent him?

"A human being, born from a woman, lives a short, trouble-filled life.

"But now he has worn me out; you have desolated this whole community of mine.

Besides, you have shriveled me up; and this serves to witness against me. My being so thin rises up against me and testifies to my face.

He tears me apart in his anger; he holds a grudge against me; he gnashes on me with his teeth. "My enemies look daggers at me.