12 Bible Verses about Why Does This Happen?

The children struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.

And Gideon said to him, "Please, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian."

And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these things come upon me?' it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you suffer violence.

And they said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?"

Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Then they said to him, "Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?"

If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"

When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree wither at once?"

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?'