Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities: Despondency in

But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.

For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause.

He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.

If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.

Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.

This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.

If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?

The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?

My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,

Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?

If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,

Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie.

For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:

Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.

To him that excelleth upon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring?

O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.

If thou bee faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.

Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.