50 Bible Verses about Tragedy

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler,

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great on man:

and crieth unto Jehovah, and saith, 'Jehovah my God, also on the widow with whom I am sojourning hast Thou done evil -- to put her son to death?'

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

'Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

Jehovah preserveth thee from all evil, He doth preserve thy soul.

Better is sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.

No iniquity is desired by the righteous, And the wicked have been full of evil.

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil.

A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

This is an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event is to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

And he stretcheth himself out on the lad three times, and calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, 'O Jehovah my God, let turn back, I pray Thee, the soul of this lad into his midst;'

For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,

Be not afraid of sudden fear, And of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh.

Not according to our sins hath He done to us, Nor according to our iniquities Hath He conferred benefits upon us.

And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind?

The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying it to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one.

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'

And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but woe to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;

The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee.

Turn back to a fenced place, Ye prisoners of the hope, Even to-day a second announcer I restore to thee.

because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

and he goeth in unto his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Beriah, because in evil had been his house, --

And the son of this woman dieth at night, because she hath lain upon it,

all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.

Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, 'I have no pleasure in them.'

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!

Who is redeeming from destruction thy life, Who is crowning thee -- kindness and mercies,

For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.

And Rizpah daughter of Aiah taketh the sackcloth, and stretcheth it out for herself on the rock, from the commencement of harvest till water hath been poured out upon them from the heavens, and hath not suffered a fowl of the heavens to rest upon them by day, or the beast of the field by night.

lo, Jehovah is smiting -- a great smiting -- among thy people, and among thy sons, and among thy wives, and among all thy goods --

for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men.

for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ.

'And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

I went out full, and empty hath Jehovah brought me back, why do ye call me Naomi, and Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath done evil to me?'

and David hath great distress, for the people have said to stone him, for the soul of all the people hath been bitter, each for his sons and for his daughters; and David doth strengthen himself in Jehovah his God.

and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see.

and she calleth the youth I-Chabod, saying, 'Honour hath removed from Israel,' because of the taking of the ark of God, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.