38 Bible Verses about Pessimism

And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my stores, and build greater; and there will I collect all my produce and my good things. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened. And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.

My days were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope.

For there is hope for a tree if it shall be cut down, and it shall yet revive, and its suckers shall not cease. If its root shall grow old in the earth, and its trunk shall die in the dust From the smell of water it will break forth, and make foliage as a plantread more.
And man will die and be weak: and man will expire, and where is he? The waters departed from the sea, and the river will be wasted and dried up; And man lay down and he will not rise: till the heavens be no more they shall not awake and rise from their sleep.

If I shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread my bed. I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and to the worm, My mother, and my sister. And where now my hope? and my hope who shall regard it?read more.
They shall go down to the bars of hades if together we shall go down to the dust.

For what my strength that I shall wait and what my end, that I shall prolong my soul?

For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come.

He will break my teeth with gravel stones, he covered me with ashes. Thou wilt cast of my soul from peace: I forgat good. And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah:

And he will say to me, Son of man, these bones all the house of Israel: behold them saying, Our bones were dried up, and our hope perished, and we were cut off to us.

And yet the mountain falling shill decay, and the rock shall be removed from its place. The waters rubbed the stones: thou wilt overflow the flowings of the dust of the earth; and thou didst destroy the hope of man.

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach: Know ye now that God subverted me; and he folded his net about me. Behold, I shall cry violence, and shall I not be answered: I shall cry for help, and no judgmentread more.
He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten paths. And he put off from me my honor, and he removed the crown of my head. He will lay me waste round about, and I shall go: and he will remove my hope as a tree. And he will kindle his anger against me, and he will reckon me to him as his enemy. His troops shall come together and raise up their way against me, and they will encamp round about to my tent He removed my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance truly turned aside from me.

That ye were in that time without Christy alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners from the covenants of solemn promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish. Which his hope shall be cut off, and the spider's house his trust He shall lean upon his house and it shall not stand: he shall hold fast upon it, and it shall not rise up.

The fear of the unjust one it shall come to him: and the desire of the just shall be given.

In the death of an unjust man expectation shall perish: and the hope of the vain shall perish.

Thou shalt not be angry against the evil; thou shalt not envy against the unjust: For there shall be no latter state to the evil one: the light of the unjust shall be extinguished.

And the spirit of Egypt was emptied in its midst, and its counsel I will destroy: and they sought to the vanities and to the mutterers, and to the necromancers, and to the wizards.

And it was in that day, says Jehovah, the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the chiefs; and the priests were astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

And every one hearing these my words and doing them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon sand. And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew and struck upon that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.

And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.

And the men who went with him said, We shall not be able to go up against the people, for they are strong above us. And they will bring forth slander of the land which they searched it out to the sons of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through upon it, to search it out, is a land consuming those dwelling upon it: and all the people which we saw in the midst of it, men being long. And there we saw the giants, sons of Anak, from the giants: and we were in our eyes as the locusts, and so were we in their eyes.

Whither are we going up? our brethren melted our heart, saying, A people great and high above us; cities great and fortified to the heavens; and also, the sons of the Anakims, we saw there.

This day I will begin to give thy fear and thy terror upon the face of the peoples under all the heavens who shall hear thy report; and they trembled and were concerned from thy face.

And she will say to the men, I knew that Jehovah gave to you the land, and that your terror fell upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melted from your face.

I went away full, and Jehovah turned me back empty; wherefore will ye call to me Naomi, and Jehovah humbled me, and the Almighty did evil to me?

And Saul will hear and all Israel, these words of him of the rovers, and they will be terrified and greatly afraid.

And the men of Israel saw that a strait to him, for the people were pressed; and the people will hide in caves, and in thorn-bushes, and in rocks, and in towers, and in pits. And the Hebrews passed over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. And Saul he yet in Gilgal, and all the people trembled after him.

And he will go there into a cave and lodge there; and behold, the word of Jehovah to him, and he will say to him, What to thee here Elijah? And he will say, Being zealous I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; they tore down thine altars, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it

If we said, We will go into the city, and the famine in. the city, and our death there: and if we sat here, and we died. And now come, and we will fall to the camp of Aram: if they will save us alive we shall live; and if they will kill us, and we died.

And it will be announced to the house of David, saying, Aram rested upon Ephraim; and his heart will move to and fro and the heart of his people, as the woods of the forest moved from the face of the wind.

Ashkelon shall see and shall fear; and Gaza, and she shall be greatly pained, and Ekron; for her confidence was ashamed; and the king perished from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

And Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. Then said the other disciples to him, We have seen the Lord. And he said to them, Except I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger in the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.

And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small tempest impending, finally all hope for us to be saved was removed.

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face.

And having the same spirit of faith, according to that written, I believed, therefore I spake: and we believe, and therefore we speak; Knowing that he having raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us by Jesus, and present us with you. For all things for you, that grace, having abounded by the many, might abound in thanksgiving to the glory of God.read more.
Wherefore we lose not courage; but if also our man without is destroyed, but he within is renewed day and day.

Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: thou shalt not look around for help for I thy God will strengthen thee; also I helped thee; also I held thee up with the right hand of my justice.

I will turn this back to my heart; for this I shall hope. The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished. New for the mornings: great thy faithfulness.read more.
Jehovah my portion, said my soul; for this I will hope toward him.

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us. Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed; Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;