22 Bible Verses about Hard Tasks

You and your people will wear yourselves out. This is too much work for you. You cannot do it alone!

They judged the people on a permanent basis. The difficult cases were taken to Moses but they decided the smaller disputes themselves.

You will not show partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great. You will not fear man for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'

If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you should go to the place Jehovah your God chooses.

Tamar was a virgin. Amnon could not think of a way to be alone with her. He was so upset about it that he made himself sick.

That is a difficult request to grant, Elijah replied. But you will receive it if you see me as I am being taken away from you. If you do not see me, you will not receive it.

It is a rare thing that the king requires. There is no other person who can show it to the king, except the gods, and they do not live with humans.

Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, has an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding for interpreting dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving doubts. Let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a matter was revealed to Daniel. Daniels name was also Belteshazzar. The matter was true. There was a great military movement. He understood the matter. He also understood the vision.

Jehovah of hosts proclaims: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes? Said Jehovah of Hosts.

Even with these words they found it hard to keep the crowd from sacrificing to them.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.

We have many things to say about him and it is hard to explain it to you, for you are dull of hearing (slow to learn).

After that they moved from Bethel. When there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. She had severe labor pains.

He made the wheels of their chariots come off. They could hardly move. Then the Egyptians shouted: Let us get out of here! Jehovah is fighting for Israel! He is against us!

Moses told his father-in-law everything Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel. He talked about all the hardships they had on the way, and how Jehovah saved them.

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. He said: This is what your brother Israel says: 'You know all the hardships we have had.

We sailed slowly for many days and had problems arriving off Cnidus. The wind did not allow us to hold our course. So we sailed to the downwind part of Crete near Salmone.

Know this also that in the last days perilous (dangerous) times will come.

The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns. But the way of the righteous is a wide path.

Behold, I (Jehovah) will fence her way with thorns. I will build a wall against her that she will not find her path.

He built a wall against me, shutting me in with hardship and bitter sorrow.