… Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own …

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.

Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.

Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

… told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

… be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a …

The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,

He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.

You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.

And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,

Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.

Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.