Here are 12 Bible verses about misery from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
Psalms 107:17 KJV
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Proverbs 13:15 KJV
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Job 11:16 KJV
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
1 Samuel 28:15 KJV
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Job 15:20 KJV
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
James 5:1 KJV
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Proverbs 31:7 KJV
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Judges 2:15 KJV
Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Romans 3:16 KJV
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
1 Chronicles 21:13 KJV
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
Romans 2:9 KJV
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Deuteronomy 28:67 KJV
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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