50 Bible Verses about Tragedy

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

And he cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem?

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.

There shall no mischief happen to the righteous; But the wicked shall be filled with evil.

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely , riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.

who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Be not afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh:

He hath not dealt with us after our sins, Nor rewarded us after our iniquities.

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come .

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself.

What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.

for which things'sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:

And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay upon it.

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;

For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God.

so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.