Bible Verses About Despondency: General references

But the people of Isra'el said to Moshe, "Oh no! We're dead men! Lost! We're all lost!

Whenever anyone approaches the tabernacle of ADONAI, he dies! Will we all perish?"

Among these nations you will not find repose, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; rather ADONAI will give you there anguish of heart, dimness of eyes and apathy of spirit.

Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be afraid night and day and have no assurance that you will stay alive.

In the morning you will say, 'Oh, how I wish it were evening!' and in the evening you will say, 'Oh, how I wish it were morning!'-because of the fear overwhelming your heart and the sights your eyes will see.

At length, Iyov broke the silence and cursed the day of his [birth].

Iyov said,

"Perish the day I was born and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'

May that day be darkness, may God on high not seek it, may no light shine on it,

may gloom dark as death defile it, may clouds settle on it, may it be terrified by its own blackness.

"As for that night, may thick darkness seize it, may it not be joined to the days of the year, may it not be numbered among the months;

may that night be desolate, may no cry of joy be heard in it;

may those who curse days curse it, those who[se curses] could rouse Livyatan;

may the stars of its twilight be dark, may it look for light but get none, may it never see the shimmer of dawn

because it didn't shut the doors of the womb I was in and shield my eyes from trouble.

"If I had been stillborn, if I had died at birth,

had there been no knees to receive me or breasts for me to suck.

Then I would be lying still and in peace, I would have slept and been at rest,

along with kings and their earthly advisers, who rebuilt ruins for themselves,

or with princes who had [plenty of] gold, who filled their houses with silver.

Or I could have been like a hidden, miscarried child that never saw light.

"There the wicked cease their raging, there the weary are at rest,

prisoners live at peace together without hearing a taskmaster's yells.

Great and small alike are there, and the slave is free of his master.

"So why must light be given to the miserable and life to the bitter in spirit?