12 Bible Verses about Why Does This Happen?

The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, 'Didn't Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?' But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian."

If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.

They said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?"

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?

Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?"

"If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"

When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"

The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'