12 Bible Verses about Questioning Life
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So I came to be in despair about everything I had accomplished on earth. For sometimes people who strive to obtain wisdom, knowledge, and equity leave everything as an inheritance to a person who never worked for it. This, too, is pointless and greatly troublesome. For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?
What does a man gain from all of the work that he undertakes on earth?
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death?
You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring a complaint to you. But I want to discuss justice with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, while all who are treacherous are at ease?
Jesus asked him, "Why ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to get into that life, you must keep the commandments."
Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They are corrupt and commit evil deeds; not one of them practices what is good.
and ran for a day's journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, "Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I'm not better than my ancestors!" Then he lay down and went to sleep under the juniper tree. All of a sudden, there was an angel, who kept grabbing him and telling him, "Get up! Eat!"
So I hated life, because whatever is done on earth causes me trouble it's all pointless, like chasing after the wind. Then I despised everything I had worked for on earth, that is, the things that I will leave to the person who will succeed me.
"Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about? Stand up like a man! I'll ask you some questions, and you give me some answers!" "Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!read more.
Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know? Who stretched a boundary line over it? On what were its bases set? Who laid its corner stone while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully? "Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb, when I made clouds to be its clothes and thick darkness its swaddling blanket, when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it; and said, "You may come only this far and no more. Your majestic waves will stop here.'? "Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life? Do you know where the dawn lives,
the people complained against the LORD and Moses. "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?" they asked. "There's no food and water, and we're tired of this worthless bread."
In those days people will seek death, but never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.
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