Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• 2 Timothy 4:16 NT

  At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

• Joel 1:1-20 OT

  Yahweh’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? Tell your children about it, and have your…

• Joel 2:1-32 OT

  Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand: A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As…

• Genesis 3:16 OT

  To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

• Genesis 3:17 OT

  To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days…

• 2 Samuel 7:14 OT

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

• Job 3:1-26 OT

  After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. Job answered: “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it,…

• Job 5:18 OT

  For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

• Job 6:1-30 OT

  Then Job answered, “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My…

• Job 7:2-6 OT

  As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages, so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I…

• Job 9:18 OT

  He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

• Job 12:5 OT

  In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

• Job 14:22 OT

  But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”

• Job 16:6-14 OT

  “Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased? But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate. You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up…

• Job 17:7-16 OT

  My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless. Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow…

• Job 19:7-20 OT

  “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths. He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He…

• Job 23:10 OT

  But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

• Job 30:15-19 OT

  Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud. “Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me. In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the…

• Job 33:19-22 OT

  He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones, so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out. Yes, his…

• Job 36:8-12 OT

  If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions, then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they…

• Job 36:15 OT

  He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

• Psalms 6:6 OT

  I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

• Psalms 6:7 OT

  My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

• Psalms 18:4-6 OT

  The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me. In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My…