12 Bible Verses about Why Does This Happen?

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Genesis 25:22

But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why then am I this way?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Judges 6:13

Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

Jeremiah 13:22

“If you say in your heart,
‘Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the magnitude of your iniquity
Your skirts have been removed
And your heels have been exposed.

Judges 21:3

They said, “Why, O Lord, God of Israel, has this come about in Israel, so that one tribe should be missing today in Israel?”

1 Samuel 20:32

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

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I ever come forth from the womb
To look on trouble and sorrow,
So that my days have been spent in shame?

Jonah 1:7

Each man said to his mate, “Come, let us cast lots so we may learn on whose account this calamity has struck us.” So they cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

Jonah 1:8

Then they said to him, “Tell us, now! On whose account has this calamity struck us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”

Matthew 22:45

If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”

Matthew 21:20

Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither all at once?”

Matthew 13:27

The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’

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