Quotes About Fate

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

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

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

It is said that God lays up oneís punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

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

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

Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

This is the wicked manís portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Abaddon and Death say, ëWe have heard a rumor about it.í

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

They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets up others in their place.

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.

This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.