Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial

For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me--as gold I go forth.

For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done--I do not add?'

And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou--Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Many are the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.

He is keeping all his bones, One of them hath not been broken.

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. I have diligently expected Jehovah, And He inclineth to me, and heareth my cry,

For my transgressions I do know, And my sin is before me continually.

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,

Before I am afflicted, I--I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts is Jehovah.

Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart.

Better is sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.

And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,

And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, `A city of righteousness--a faithful city.'

And it hath come to pass, in that day, The remnant of Israel, And the escaped of the house of Jacob, Do not add any more to lean on its smiter, And have leant on Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, in truth.

A remnant returneth--a remnant of Jacob, Unto the Mighty God.

With my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, with my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments are on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.

thy dwelling is in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.