12 Bible Verses about Why Does This Happen?

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Gideon said to Him, “Please Sir, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all His wonders that our fathers told us about? They said, ‘Hasn’t the Lord brought us out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

And when you ask yourself,
“Why have these things happened to me?”
It is because of your great guilt
that your skirts have been stripped off,
your body exposed.

and cried out, “Why, Lord God of Israel, has it occurred that one tribe is missing in Israel today?”

Jonathan answered his father back: “Why is he to be killed? What has he done?”

Who is the man wise enough to understand this? Who has the Lord spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so no one can pass through?

Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,
to end my life in shame?

“Come on!” the sailors said to each other. “Let’s cast lots. Then we’ll know who is to blame for this trouble we’re in.” So they cast lots, and the lot singled out Jonah.

Then they said to him, “Tell us who is to blame for this trouble we’re in. What is your business and where are you from? What is your country and what people are you from?”

“If David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how then can the Messiah be his Son?”

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

The landowner’s slaves came to him and said, ‘Master, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’