Quotes About Existence

He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

and say to corruption, ëYou are my father,í and to the worm, ëMy mother,í or ëMy sister,í

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?í

One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?

They said to God, ëDepart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?í

If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.