Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Exodus 4:11 OT

  Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

• Deuteronomy 4:5-31 OT

  Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your…

• Deuteronomy 28:15-68 OT

  But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you. You will be cursed in…

• Deuteronomy 32:39 OT

  “See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

• Ruth 1:20 OT

  She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

• Ruth 1:21 OT

  I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

• 1 Samuel 2:6 OT

  “Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

• 1 Samuel 2:7 OT

  Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

• 2 Samuel 16:10 OT

  The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

• 2 Kings 6:33 OT

  While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

• 2 Kings 15:5 OT

  Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

• 2 Chronicles 7:12-22 OT

  Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice. “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land,…

• Job 1:21 OT

  He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

• Job 6:4 OT

  For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

• Job 9:12 OT

  Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

• Job 9:22 OT

  “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

• Job 10:8 OT

  “ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

• Job 11:10 OT

  If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

• Job 12:14-25 OT

  Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. With him is strength and wisdom.…

• Job 19:6 OT

  know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

• Job 19:21 OT

  “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

• Job 23:16 OT

  For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

• Job 27:2 OT

  “As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

• Job 30:11 OT

  For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.