Bible Verses About Afflictions

To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.

But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.

You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.

But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.

Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert,

That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the hardest rock,

And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee,

Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee, shall surely die.

While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared, who was coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?

And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds, and our great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our iniquity, and hast given us a deliverance as at this day,

On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.

Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.

Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?

Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.

But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.