Bible Verses About Doubting

He answered, "I have been very zealous for ADONAI the God of armies; because the people of Isra'el have abandoned your covenant, broken down your altars and killed your prophets with the sword. Now I'm the only one left, and they're after me to kill me too."

ADONAI said to him, "Go back by way of the Dammesek Desert. When you get there, anoint Haza'el to be king over Aram.

Also anoint Yehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Isra'el, and anoint Elisha the son of Shafat of Avel-M'cholah to be prophet after you.

Yehu will kill whoever escapes the sword of Haza'el, and Elisha will kill whoever escapes the sword of Yehu.

Still, I will spare seven thousand in Isra'el, every knee that hasn't bent down before Ba'al and every mouth that has not kissed him."

He said, "Take the arrows"; and he took them. He told the king of Isra'el, "Strike the ground." He struck three times, then stopped.

The man of God became angry with him; he said, "You should have struck five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram completely. As it is, you will defeat Aram only three times."

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.