12 Bible Verses about Questioning Life

So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun. Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil. What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers. And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food.

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind. Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.

Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge? Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.read more.
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it? On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone, When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy? Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped? Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.