12 Bible Verses about Why Does This Happen?

The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of the LORD.

Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, 'Didn't the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian."

If you say in your heart, 'Why are these things come on me?' for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.

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

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

"Who is the wise man, that may understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?"

Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? 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 immediately wither away?"

So the servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where did these tares come from?'