Quotes About Existence

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

It is all the same, and so I say, ëHe destroys both the blameless and the wicked.í

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.