Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.

But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.

For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee.

And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.

Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.

Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.

Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.

For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.

Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

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,