Bible Verses About Doubting: General references

You have given moral instruction to many, you have firmed up feeble hands,

your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have strengthened the weak-kneed.

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

Isn't your fear of God your assurance, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

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.

This is why I am terrified of him; the more I think about it, the more afraid I am -

God has undermined my courage; Shaddai frightens me.

Yet I am not cut off by the darkness; he has protected me from the deepest gloom.

"I call out to you [God], but you don't answer me; I stand up to plead, but you just look at me.

You have turned cruelly against me; with your powerful hand you keep persecuting me.

My soul, why are you so downcast? Why are you groaning inside me? Hope in God, since I will praise him again for the salvation that comes from his presence.

My God, when I feel so downcast, I remind myself of you from the land of Yarden, from the peaks of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

It's all for nothing that I've kept my heart clean and washed my hands, staying free of guilt;

for all day long I am plagued; my punishment comes every morning.

If I had said, "I will talk like them,"I would have betrayed a generation of your children.

When I tried to understand all this, I found it too hard for me -

until I went into the sanctuaries of God and grasped what their destiny would be.

"Will Adonai reject forever? will he never show his favor again?