Quotes About Fate

Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.

They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.

but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.

You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

May his days be few; may another take his position.

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.

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

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

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.

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.