'Sickness' in the Bible
And you will serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from among you.
and you yourself [will be afflicted] with great illness, with sickness in your bowels, until your bowels come out on account of the illness, day by day.'"
The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but a broken spirit, who may bear it?
Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated [in] much sickness and resentment.
On your planting day you make [them] grow, and in the morning [of] your sowing you bring [them] into bloom, [yet] the harvest will flee in a day [of] sickness and incurable pain.
A writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he was sick and had recovered from his sickness:
[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.
As a water well keeps its water cool, so she keeps cool her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard within her, sickness and wounds [are] continually {before me}.
Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound [is] incurable. But I said, "Surely this [is my] sickness, and I must bear it."
If I go out [into] the field, then look, those slain by [the] sword. And if I enter the city, then look, the sickness of [the] famine. For both prophet and priest wander around through the land, {they do not know what is going on}.'"
For thus says Yahweh, 'Your injury [is] incurable, your wound [is] overcome by sickness.