48 Bible Verses about Tragedy

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

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

And he cried to LORD, and said, O LORD my God, have thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn by slaying her son?

For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them. Do ye think that these became debtors above all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes,

LORD will keep thee from all evil. He will keep thy soul.

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.

There shall no mischief happen to a righteous man, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skillfulness, yet he shall leave it to a man who has not labored in it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

A man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, 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 an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches [were] kept by the owner of it to his hurt.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, 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 be brought to nothing. Speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.

And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to 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, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.

What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.

who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falls, and let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown,

Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes.

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

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind?

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

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am LORD who does all these things.

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. 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 none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.

What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

Turn you back to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will render double to thee.

Because of which the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience,

And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay upon it.

All unrighteousness is sin. And there is sin not toward death.

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them,

who redeems thy life from destruction, who crowns thee with loving kindness and tender mercies,

For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven. And she neither allowed the birds of the heaven to rest on them by day

, behold, LORD will smite thy people with a great plague, and thy sons, and thy wives, and all thy substance.

For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons of men.

For if, by the offense of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

And I also say to thee, that thou are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

I went out full, and LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing 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 grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters. But David strengthened himself in LORD his God.

so that thou shall be mad because of the sight of thine eyes which thou shall see.

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