57 Bible Verses about Suffering, Hardship

The wealth of the rich his strong city: the destruction of the poor their poverty.

For the needy shall not cease from the midst of thy land: for this I command thee, saying, Opening, thou shalt open thy hand to thy brother, to thy afflicted and to thy needy in thy land.

Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young. In the field they will harvest his meslin, and they will glean the vintage of the unjust one. They will cause the naked to lodge without clothing, and no covering in the cold.read more.
They will be wet from the pouring rains of the mountains, and they embraced the rock from no shelter. They will strip the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge for the poor. They caused the naked to go without clothing, and from the hungry they took away the sheaf; Between their walls they will press out oil; they trod their wine-presses, and they will thirst

For always the poor ye have with you, but me ye have not always.

For always have ye the poor with you, and when ye wish ye can do them good: and me ye have not always.

For the poor have ye always with you;and me ye have not always.

They will wander in the desert in a waste; the way of a city of dwelling they found not Hungering, also thirsting, their soul will faint in them.

And the seven years of plenty will be completed, which was in the land of Egypt And the seven years of famine will begin to come, according to that Joseph said: and the famine will be in all the lands; and in all the land of Egypt was bread. And all the land of Egypt shall hunger, and the people will cry out to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh will say to all Egypt, Go to Joseph; what he shall say to you, ye shall do.read more.
And the famine was upon all the face of the earth: and Joseph will open all which in them, and he will sell to Egypt; and the famine was strong in the land of Egypt And all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy, for the famine was strong in all the earth.

And Moses will remove Israel from the sea of sedge, and they will come forth to the desert of Shur; and they will go three days into the desert, and they found not water. And they will come to Marah, and they will not be able to drink the waters of Marah, for they are bitter: for this he called the name bitterness. And the people will murmur against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the desert And the sons of Israel will say to them, Who will give to die by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt in our sitting by the pot of flesh, in our eating bread to satiety? for ye brought us forth to this desert to kill all this convocation with hunger.

And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will remove from the desert of Sin, according to their removings by the mouth of Jehovah; and they will encamp in Rephidim; and no water for the people to drink. And the people contended with Moses, and they will say, Give to us water and we will drink. And Moses will say to them, Why will ye contend with me, and why will ye tempt Jehovah? And the people will thirst there for water; and the people will murmur against Moses, and will say, For what this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

And the scraped together which in its midst will long a longing; and the sons of Israel also will turn back and weep, and they will say, Who will feed us with flesh? We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics. And now our soul shall be dried up; not any thing but to the manna our eyes.

And it will be from the end of days, and the torrent will dry up, for there was no rain upon the earth. And the word of Jehovah will be to him, saying, Arise, go to Zarephath which is to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I commanded a widow woman to nourish thee there.read more.
And he will rise and go to Zarephath, and will come to the entrance of the city, and behold there a widow woman gathering wood: and he will call to her, and say, Take now to me a little water in a vessel, and I will drink. And she will go to take, and he will call to her and say, Take now to me a bit of bread in thy hand. And she will say, Jehovah thy God lives, if there is to me a cake, but a handful of flour in a bucket, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold me gathering two woods, and I went to do it for me and for my son, and we shall eat and die.

And a cry of the people and their wives will be great against their brethren the Jews. And there is which saying, Our sons and our daughters, we being many: and we will take grain and we will eat and live. And there are those saying, Our fields and our vineyards and our houses we pledge, and we will take grain in the famine.read more.
And there are those saying, We borrowed silver for the king's tribute, our fields and our vineyards. And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others.

And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and they having ended, he afterward hungered.

And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

These twenty years I am with thee; thy sheep and thy she-goats were not barren, and the rams of thy flock, I ate not. The torn I brought not to thee; I shall bear the blame of it; from my hand thou will seek it, thefts of the day, and thefts of the night I was in the day, the drought consumed me, and cold in the night, and sleep will flee away from mine eyes.read more.
Here to me twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep; and thou wilt change my hire ten portions. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaak was not with me, then now, empty thou hadst sent me away. My affliction and the labor of my hand God saw and he rebuked yesterday.

And they will send and call to him. And Jeroboam will come, and all Israel, and they will speak to Rehoboam, saying, Thy father hardened our yoke: and now lighten from the hard servitude of thy father, and from his heavy yoke which he gave upon us, and we will serve thee.

For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.

From the multitude of oppressions they will cry out: they will cry out from the arm of the many.

And they will set over them leaders of the tributes in order to afflict them in their burdens. And they will build cities of stores for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses

And it will be in these many days, and the king of Egypt will die: and the sons of Israel will groan, from the work; and they will cry out, and their supplication will go up to God from the work.

And the measure of bricks which they made yesterday and the third day, ye shall put upon them; ye shall not take away from it, for they are slack; for this they cried, saying, We will go to sacrifice to our God. The work shall be heavy upon the men, and they shall work in it, and they shall not look upon empty words

And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

From the oppression of the poor, from the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, Jehovah will say; I will set with salvation, he will puff at him.

Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly. For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away. From all mine enemies I was a reproach, and greatly to my neighbors, and a fear to those knowing me: they seeing me without fled from me.read more.
I was forgotten as the dead from the heart: I was a vessel perishing. For I heard the slander of many sojourning round about: in their sitting together against me they purposed to take away my soul

For thus said Jehovah of armies, Cut off the wood, and throw up a mound against Jerusalem: this the city to be reviewed; oppression is wholly in her midst

Cause to be heard upon the palaces in Ashdod, and upon the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Be ye gathered together upon the mountains of Shomeron, and see the great tumults in the midst of her, and the oppressed in the midst of her.

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

And we doing in the work: and half of them holding fast upon the spears from the ascending of the dawn even till the coming forth of the stars. Also in that time I said to the people, A man and his youth shall lodge in the midst of Jerusalem; and they were watching for us in the night, and work in the day. And not I and my brethren and my young men, and the men of the watch which were after me, we not putting off our garments; a man his weapon for water.

And Moses will recount to his father-in-law all which Jehovah did to Pharaoh, and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the distress which found them in the way; and Jehovah will deliver them.

And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth upon thy field: for thou a man of death: and in this day will not kill thee, for thou didst lift up the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wert afflicted in all which my father was afflicted.

And the three from the thirty heads will go down upon the rock to David to the cave of Adullam; and the camp of the rovers encamped in the valley of Rephaim. And David then in the castle, and a garrison of the rovers then in the house of bread. And David will long, and say, Who will give me to drink from the water from the well of the house of bread, which is in the gate?read more.
And the three will break forth into the camp of the rovers, and draw waters from the well of the house of bread which is in the gate, and they will lift up and bring to David: and David would not drink them, and he will pour them forth to Jehovah. And he will say, Far be it to me from my God from doing this: shall I drink the blood of these men with their souls? for with their souls they brought them. And he would not drink them. These did the three strong ones.

And when it was the fourteenth night, we being carried up and down in Adria, at midnight the sailors supposed some country brought near them; And having sounded, they found twenty fathoms; and having removed a little, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms. And fearing lest perhaps we might fall through into rough places, having cast four anchors from the stern, prayed for day to come.read more.
And the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and having loosened the boat to the sea, for a pretext as about to extend the anchors from the prow, Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these should remain in the ship, ye cannot be saved. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and suffered it to fall off. And till it was about to be day, Paul besought all to take food, saying, Awaiting this day the fourteenth day, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I beseech you to take food: for this is for your salvation: for not a hair of the head of one of you shall fall. And having said these, and having taken bread, he returned thanks to God before all: and having broken, he began to eat. And all being cheerful, these also received food. And we were, all the souls in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six. And satisfied with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea. And when it was day, they knew not the land: and they observed a certain deep bay having a coast, into which they resolved, if able, to push the ship. And having in removed the anchors, they let go into the sea, at the same time having let loose the bonds of the rudders, and having lifted up the mizen mast, they held with the blast to the coast. And having fallen into a place between two seas, they caused the ship to strike; and truly the prow, fixed firmly, remained undisturbed, but the stern was loosed by force of the waves. And the soldiers' counsel was that they kill the prisoners, lest any, having swum away, may escape. But the centurion wishing to save Paul, hindered from the resolution; and he commanded those being able to swim, having cast off first, to come to land: And the rest, truly some on boards, and some on certain things from the ship. And so it was, all were saved upon the land.

Because that thou servedst not Jehovah thy God injoy and in a good heart for the multitude of all things. And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee.

He causing thee to go in the great and fearful desert, the fiery serpent and the scorpion, and a thirsty land, where is no water: he bringing forth to thee water from the rock of flint;

And the Egyptians did us evil, and humbled us, and they will distribute to us hard service. And we shall cry to Jehovah the God of our fathers, and Jehovah will hear our voice, and will see our affliction and our labor and our oppression.

Song of ascensions. Remember, O Jehovah, for David with all his affliction.

But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities, In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings;

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.

And having announced that city the good news, and made disciples sufficient, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch, And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.

Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady. And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live: And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often. Of the Jews five times I received forty, except one. Thrice was I scourged with rods, once was I stoned, thrice suffered I shipwreck, I have made a night and day in the deep;read more.
In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren; In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides things outside, my distraction daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I am not inflamed

Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition. And I know how to be humble, and I know how to abound in every thing: and in all I am instructed also to be full and to hunger, and to abound and to be in want. I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me.read more.
But ye did well, participating together in my pressure.

Thou therefore suffer ill treatment, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth.

If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?

And thou hast borne, and thou hast patience, and for my name hast thou been wearied, and thou hast not been broken by toil.

And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:

And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved.

And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake: and he having remained to the end, the same shall be saved.

Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.

Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

For this is grace, if any by consciousness of God bear grief, suffering unjustly.