Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities: Despondency in

"But now it comes to you, and you are impatient; at the first touch, you are in shock.

If I summoned him, and he answered me, I still can't believe he would listen to my plea.

He could break me with a storm; he could multiply my wounds for no reason,

to the point where I couldn't even breathe -with such bitterness he could fill me!

If it's a matter of force, look how mighty he is; if justice, who can summon him to court?

Even if I'm right, my own mouth will condemn me; if I'm innocent, it would pronounce me guilty.

"I am innocent. Don't I know myself? But I've had enough of this life of mine!

So I say it's all the same -he destroys innocent and wicked alike.

When disaster brings sudden death, he laughs at the plight of the innocent.

The earth has been given to the power of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges -if it isn't he, then who is it?

My days pass on more swiftly than a runner; they flee without seeing anything good.

They skim by like skiffs built of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

"If I say, 'I'll forget my complaining, I'll put off my sad face and be cheerful,'

then I'm still afraid of all my pain, and I know you will not hold me innocent.

I will be condemned, so why waste my efforts?

Even if I washed myself in melted snow and cleansed my hands with lye,

you would plunge me into the muddy pit, till my own clothes would detest me.

"For he is not merely human like me; there is no answer that I could give him if we were to come together in court.

There is no arbitrator between us who could lay his hand on us both.

If he would remove his rod from me and not let his terrors frighten me,

then I would speak without fear of him; for when I'm alone, I'm not afraid.

For the leader. Set to "Sunrise."A psalm of David: My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why so far from helping me, so far from my anguished cries?

My God, by day I call to you, but you don't answer; likewise at night, but I get no relief.

If you slack off on a day of distress, your strength is small indeed.

Why should anyone alive complain, even a strong man, about the punishment for his sins?