12 Bible Verses about Why Does This Happen?

And the children struggled together within her: and she said, If it is so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.

And Gideon said to him, O my Lord, if the LORD is with us, why then hath all this befallen us? and where are all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

And if thou shalt say in thy heart, Why come these things upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels made bare.

And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why shall he be slain? what hath he done?

Who is the wise man that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

Why was I brought into the world to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

Then said they to him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thy occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?

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

And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How soon is the fig-tree withered!

So the servants of the householder came and said to him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?