60 Bible Verses about Suffering, Of The Innocent

Thine eyes are clean, thou mayest not see evil, thou cannot behold the thing that is wicked. Wherefore then doest thou look upon the ungodly, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked devoureth the man that is better than himself?

Behold: though I cry, yet violence is done unto me. I cannot be heard! Though I complain, there is none to give sentence with me.

Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

For lo, they lie in waiting for my soul; the mighty men are gathered together against me, without any offense or fault of me, O LORD. They run and prepare themselves, without my fault; Arise thou therefore to help me, and behold.

{An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture?

free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.

"Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?

And his disciples asked him saying, "Master, who did sin: this man, or his father and mother, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "Neither this man hath sinned, nor yet his father and mother: but that the works of God should be showed on him.

But you will say, 'The way of the Lord is not equal.' Here I pray you, ye house of Israel. Is not my way equal?

Then said his wife unto him, "Dost thou yet continue in thy perfectness? Curse God, and die." But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

"It is he, himself, alone. Who will turn him back? He doth as him listeth, and bringeth to pass what he will. He rewardeth me into my bosom, and many other things more doth he, as he may by his power. This is the cause, that I shrink at his presence, so that when I consider him I am afraid of him.

"Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

And why? I was grieved at the wicked, to see the ungodly in such prosperity.

and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

and said, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn thither again. The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; now blessed be the name of the LORD."

And unto man he said, 'Behold, to fear the LORD is wisdom: and to forsake evil, is understanding.'"

For sure it is, that God condemneth no man wrongfully, and the judgment of the Almighty is not unrighteous.

Behold, so great is God, that he passeth our knowledge; neither are we able to come to the experience of his years.

Teach us what we shall say unto him, for we are unmete because of darkness.

"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.

{Nun} Let us look well upon our own ways, and remember ourselves, and turn again to the LORD.

And fear ye not them which kill the body, and be not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body into hell.

That be far from thee, that thou shouldest do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked: that be far from thee. Should not the Judge of all the world do according to right?"

O cast thy burden or care upon the LORD; he shall nourish thee, and not leave the righteous in unquietness. But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.

And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.

Nevertheless, though I am sometimes afraid, yet put I my trust in thee. I will comfort myself in God's word; yea, I will hope in God, and not fear. What can flesh then do unto me?

As for me, I will sing of thy power, and praise thy mercy betimes in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Nevertheless, my soul abideth only upon God, for he is my God.

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward, and put to confusion that wish me evil.

So they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

Our God whom we serve, is able to keep us from the hot burning oven, O king, and can right well deliver us out of thy hands: And if he will not, yet shalt thou know, O king, that we will not serve thy Gods, nor do reverence to the Image which thou hast set up."

For the fig trees shall not be green, and the vines shall bear no fruit. The labour of the olive shall be but lost, and the land shall bring no corn: the sheep shall be taken out of the fold, and there shall be no cattle in the stalls. But as for me, I will be glad in the LORD, and will rejoice in God my Saviour.

which when he was reviled, reviled not again: when he suffered, he threatened not: but committed the cause to him that judgeth righteously,

Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit their souls to him with well doing, as unto a faithful creator.

Cast all your care to him: for he careth for you.

And why? For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

And God looked upon the children of Israel and knew them.

For the LORD had seen how that the affliction of Israel was exceeding bitter, in so much that the prisoned and the forsaken were at an end. And there was no helper unto Israel.

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Behold, the eye of the LORD looketh unto them that fear him, and upon them that put their trust in his mercy, that he may deliver their soul from death, and to feed them in the time of dearth.

Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

The LORD alloweth the righteous; but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul abhor.

But thou, O LORD, shalt have them in derision, thou shalt laugh all the Heathen to scorn.

Prophesy therefore upon the land of Israel, speak unto the mountains and hills, to valleys and dales; thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, this have I devised in my jealousy and terrible wrath. Forsomuch as ye have suffered reproof of the Heathen, therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: I have sworn, that the Gentiles which lie about you shall bear your confusion themselves.

Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune.

Great are the troubles of the righteous, but the LORD delivereth him out of all.

and the LORD turned him unto Job, when he prayed for his friends: Yea, the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had afore. And then came there unto him all his brethren, all his sisters, with all them that had been of his acquaintance afore, and ate bread with him in his house: wondering at him, and comforting him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him. Every man gave him a sheep and a Jewel of gold. And the LORD made Job richer than he was before: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand asses.

They shall hunger no more neither thirst, neither shall the sun light on them, neither any heat.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, neither crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the old things are gone.

I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

Notwithstanding, I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, except it be with a mighty hand: yea and I will therefore stretch out mine hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do therein. And after that he will let you go.

Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me, until I went into the Sanctuary of God. Then understood I the end of these men. Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.

Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together, and let me ever escape them.

"Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Damascus, I will not spare her: because they have threshed Gilead with iron stales.

Woe to that bloodthirsty city, which is all full of lies and robbery, and will not leave off from ravishing.

Therefore with shame shalt thou be filled, instead of honour. Drink thou also, till thou slumber withal: for the cup of the LORD's righthand shall compass thee about, and shameful spewing instead of thy worship.

Then shall the King say unto them that shall be on the left hand, 'Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was a hungered, and ye gave me no meat. I thirsted, and ye gave me no drink. I was harborless, and ye lodged me not. I was naked, and ye clothed me not. I was sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.'read more.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, 'Master, when saw we thee a hungered, or athirst, or harborless, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and have not ministered unto thee?' Then shall he answer them, and say, 'Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.' And these shall go into everlasting pain: And the righteous into life eternal.

For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

And if the righteous scarcely be saved: where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Reward her even as she rewarded you, and give her double according to her works. And pour in double to her in the same cup which she filled unto you. And as much as she glorified herself and lived wantonly, so much pour ye in for her of punishment, and sorrow, for she said in her heart, 'I sit, being a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow.'