50 Bible Verses about Tragedy

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a sin which comes from a ruler's presence;

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

And he cried to Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, have You also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by slaying her son?

For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.

Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were sinners above all men who lived in Jerusalem?

If you faint in the day of trial, your strength is small.

I also will laugh at your trouble; I will mock when your fear comes;

Jehovah shall keep you from all evil; He shall keep your soul.

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

No evil shall happen to the just, but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

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

a man to whom God has given 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 a stranger eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

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

This is an evil among all things that are 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.

Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated. Speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.

And he stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, please let this child's soul come to 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 an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

What are you plotting against Jehovah? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.

He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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

Do not be afraid of sudden fear, nor of the destroying 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 sore evil, that in all, as he came, so shall he go; and what profit does he have who has labored for the wind?

The righteous one perishes, and no one lays it to heart, and merciful men are taken away; no one cares that the righteous is taken away from the face of evil.

forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these things.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all which is done under the heavens. It is a sad task God has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it.

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones 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 who is alone when he falls, for he does not have another to help him.

For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

When I am afraid I will trust in You.

Turn to the stronghold, prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will return to you double.

on account of which things' sake the wrath of God is coming on 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 laid on it.

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not to death.

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.

My bowels, my bowels! I convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the ram's horn, the alarm of war.

who redeems your life from ruin; who crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

Therefore I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like jackals, mourn like the daughters of an ostrich.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven. And she did not allow either the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

behold, Jehovah will strike your people with a great plague, and your sons, and your wives, and all your goods.

For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.

For He does not afflict from His heart, nor does He grieve the sons of men;

For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.)

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

I went out full, and Jehovah has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Jehovah has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

And it greatly distressed David, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, each one for his sons and for his daughters. But David encouraged himself in Jehovah his God.

and you shall be mad because of that which you shall see with the sight of your eyes.

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