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Want to know what the Bible says about Afflictions? Here are 52 Bible verses about Afflictions from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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2 Kings 6:33 NIV
While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him.
The king said, “This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”
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Job 5:6 NIV
For hardship does not spring from the soil,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground.
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Job 5:17 NIV
“Blessed is the one whom God corrects;
    so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
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Job 11:10 NIV
“If he comes along and confines you in prison
    and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
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Isaiah 10:15 NIV
Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
    or the saw boast against the one who uses it?
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
    or a club brandish the one who is not wood!
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Isaiah 45:7 NIV
I form the light and create darkness,
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;
    I, the Lord, do all these things.
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Psalm 80:5 NIV
You have fed them with the bread of tears;
    you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
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Isaiah 9:1 NIV
Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—
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Jeremiah 46:28 NIV
Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant,
    for I am with you,” declares the Lord.
“Though I completely destroy all the nations
    among which I scatter you,
    I will not completely destroy you.
I will discipline you but only in due measure;
    I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”
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Genesis 15:13-14 NIV
13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
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Lamentations 3:33 NIV
For he does not willingly bring affliction
    or grief to anyone.
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1 Thessalonians 3:3 NIV
so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them.
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Genesis 3:16-19 NIV
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
    and he will rule over you.
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
    through painful toil you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
    you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”
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Job 4:8 NIV
As I have observed, those who plow evil
    and those who sow trouble reap it.
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Job 20:11 NIV
The youthful vigor that fills his bones
    will lie with him in the dust.
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Proverbs 1:31 NIV
they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
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2 Samuel 12:14 NIV
But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.”
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Psalm 89:30-32 NIV
30 “If his sons forsake my law
    and do not follow my statutes,
31 if they violate my decrees
    and fail to keep my commands,
32 I will punish their sin with the rod,
    their iniquity with flogging;
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Isaiah 57:17 NIV
I was enraged by their sinful greed;
    I punished them, and hid my face in anger,
    yet they kept on in their willful ways.
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