Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.

But if a man like myself--I answer him, We come together into judgment.

If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both.

He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid,

I speak, and do not fear Him, But I am not right with myself.

Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?

For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest--as the morning thou art.

And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched--in confidence thou liest down,

And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;

A torch--despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.

Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.

Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.

The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.

Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.

Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.

Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.

Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy--no way!

They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.