12 Bible Verses about Questioning Life
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Therefore my heart began to despair again regarding all the labour which I took under the sun. That the man who worked with wisdom and with knowledge and with uprightness would have to leave his portion to a man that has not laboured therein. This also is vanity and a great evil. For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun?
What profit does a man have of all his labour which he takes under the sun?
What profit does the one that works have in that in which he labours?
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Righteous art thou, O LORD, even though I dispute with thee: even so, I will speak judgments with thee; Why does the way of the wicked prosper? All those that completely rebel against thee have peace.
And he said unto him, Why dost thou call me good? There is none good but one, that is, God, but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is no one that does good.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers. And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him and said unto him, Arise and eat.
Therefore I hated life because every work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all was vanity and vexation of spirit. Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun, which I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now gird up thy loins like a man; for I will enquire of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Cause me to know, if thou hast understanding.read more.
Who ordered its dimensions, if thou knowest? Or who has stretched the line upon it? Upon what are its foundations founded? Or who laid its corner stone; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, and established my decree upon it, and set bars and doors, and said, Thou shalt come unto here, but no further; and there shall the pride of thy waves be stayed. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? Hast thou shown the dayspring its place,
And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.
And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.