11 Bible Verses about Unbearable Things

Now then, why are you testing God by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to endure?

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
So is the lazy one to those who send him to work.

If I say, “I will not remember Him
Or speak His name anymore,”
Then my heart becomes a burning fire
Shut up in my bones.
And I am weary of enduring and holding it in;
I cannot endure it [nor contain it any longer].

The Lord could no longer endure it, because of the evil of your acts and the repulsive acts which you have committed; because of them your land has become a ruin, an object of horror and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel [site of the golden calf shrine], sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.

For they could not bear the command, “If even a wild animal touches the mountain, it will be stoned [to death].”

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city [since it rejected the Messiah’s messenger].

I tell you, it will be more bearable in that day [of judgment] for Sodom than for that city.

But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment, than for you.”

Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for [the pagan cities of] Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

However, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.