12 Bible Verses about Why Does This Happen?

And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us over to the power of Midian.

And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?

And Jonathan, answering his father Saul, said to him, Why is he to be put to death? What has he done?

Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

And they said to one another, Come, let us put this to the decision of chance and see on whose account this evil has come on us. So they did so, and Jonah was seen to be the man.

Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?

If David then gives him the name of Lord, how is he his son?

And when the disciples saw it they were surprised, saying, How did the fig-tree become dry in so short a time?

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?