Quotes About Reflection

When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

For you say, ëWhere now is the noblemanís house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?í

He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

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

To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

Job continued his discourse:

Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?

The house he built is like a mothís cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

And Job continued his discourse:

“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.

After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.

Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.