9 Bible Verses about Bad Luck

Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel. On the way some boys came out of a town and taunted and made fun of him. They shouted: Get out of here, baldy! Elisha turned around and glared at them. He cursed them in the name of Jehovah. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys to pieces.

When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he fathered a son, then there was no support for him.

Seven years of famine will follow. Then people will forget that there was plenty of food in Egypt. The famine will ruin the land.

I have been plagued all day long, and chastened every morning.

and one of you says to them: Go in peace, be warmed and filled; and yet you do not give them food and clothing, what good is it?

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.

Jephthah promised Jehovah: If you give me victory over the Ammonites, I will sacrifice with a burnt offering the first person that comes out of my house to meet me, when I return from the victory. I will offer that person to you as a sacrifice. (Jeremiah 19:5) Jephthah crossed the river to fight the Ammonites, and Jehovah gave him victory.read more.
He struck at them from Aroer to the area around Minnith, twenty cities in all, and as far as Abel Keramim. It was a great slaughter. The Ammonites were defeated by Israel. Jephthah went back home to Mizpah. His daughter came out to meet him, dancing and playing the tambourine. She was his only child. When he saw her, he ripped his clothes in sorrow and said: Oh, my daughter! My heart is breaking! Why must it be you? I have made a solemn promise to Jehovah, and I cannot take it back! She said: If you made a promise to Jehovah, do what you said you would do to me, since Jehovah has given you revenge on your enemies, the Ammonites. She asked her father: Do this for me. Leave me alone for two months, so that I can go with my friends to wander in the mountains and grieve that I must die a virgin. He sent her away for two months. She and her friends went up into the mountains and grieved because she was going to die unmarried and childless. She returned to her father after two months. He did what he had promised Jehovah, and she died still a virgin. This was the origin of the custom in Israel. The Israelite women would go out for four days every year to grieve for the daughter of Jephthah of Gilead.

A young man named Eutychus sat in the window. He was very sleepy. Paul's talk was long and he fell asleep. He fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

However, Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.