suffering

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:

They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.