Quotes About Destiny

So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.

I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?

For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.

Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?

In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in Godís hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

But this is what the Lord GOD says: ëIt will not arise; it will not happen.

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.

The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.

Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?

For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.í”

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherdís tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ëYou are My servant.í I have chosen and not rejected you.