49 Bible Verses about Tragedy

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem?

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

And stretching herself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:

He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.

For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;

Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;

After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.

And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.

And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.