17 Bible Verses About Finding Strength in Weakness

His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.