68 Bible Verses About Enduring Trials

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.