50 Bible Verses about Tragedy

There is another evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceeds from the ruler:

There is another evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is very common among men:

And he cried unto the LORD and said, O LORD my God, hast thou even brought evil upon the widow, with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction shall come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and slew them, think ye that they were greater debtors than all the other men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;

The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; he shall preserve thy soul.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made whole.

No iniquity shall overtake the righteous: but the wicked shall be filled with evil.

That the man who worked with wisdom and with knowledge and with uprightness would have to leave his portion to a man that has not laboured therein. This also is vanity and a great evil.

A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honour so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but the strangers eat it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

There is another sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; and also that the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.

And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried unto the LORD and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.

For man also does not know his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net and as the birds that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in the evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end; he will not hold back the tribulation the second time.

who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Do not rejoice when thy enemy falls, and do not let thy heart be glad when he stumbles

Thou shall not be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked when it comes.

He has not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil: I am the LORD that does all this.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven (this sore travail God has given to the sons of man that they be occupied in it).

But he said unto her, Thou hast spoken as any of the foolish women speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falls, for he has not another to help him up.

For none of us live for ourselves, and no one dies for himself.

When I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will render double unto thee;

for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience,

And when he went in to his wife, she conceived and gave birth to a son, and he called his name Beriah, because he had been in affliction in his house.

And this woman's child died in the night because she lay on top of him.

All unrighteousness is sin, but there is a sin not unto death.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth while the evil days do not come nor the years draw near when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.

who redeems thy life from destruction; who crowns thee with mercy and compassion;

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons and mourning as the owls.

And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it upon the rock from the beginning of harvest until water rained upon them out of heaven and allowed neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

behold, the LORD shall smite thy people with a great plague, and thy sons and thy wives and all thy goods;

For judgment without mercy shall be done unto the one that has shown no mercy; and mercy boasts against judgment.

Caph For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart.

For if by one offense, death reigned because of one man; much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of gifts and of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus the Christ.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, a small rock and upon the large rock I will build my congregation , and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against her.

I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him because the soul of all the people was bitter, each one for his sons and for his daughters; but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel! (Because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.)