Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

In famine, he will save you from death, and in war, from the power of the sword.

You will be shielded from the lash of the tongue, and you won't have to fear destruction when it comes -

you'll be able to laugh at destruction and famine. Also you won't have to fear wild animals,

for you will be in league with the stones in the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

You will know that your tent is safe; you will look round your home and miss nothing.

You will know that your descendants are many, your offspring like grass [growing thick] in the fields.

You will come to your grave at a ripe old age, like a pile of grain that arrives in season.

"We've looked into this, and that's how it is; listen, and know that it's for your own good."

For the arrows of Shaddai find their mark in me, and my spirit is drinking in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

If he kills [people], who will ask why? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?'

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,