Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from the hand of the sword.

Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.

In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin.

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.

For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?

And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.

For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.

He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.

If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.

If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.

Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.

One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.

If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.

They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.

If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.

I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.

But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?

If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean: