12 Bible Verses about Questioning Life

Therefore I gave my heart up to despair of all the labor in which I toiled under the sun. For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored in it shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun?

What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

What profit has he that works in that in which he labors?

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

And he said unto him, Why do you call me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and 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 the work that is done under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and like grasping the wind. Yea, I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun: because I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and you answer me. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.read more.
Who has determined the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it? On what are its foundations fastened? or who laid its cornerstone; 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 its swaddling band, And prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, And said, Thus far shall you come, but no farther: and here shall your proud waves be stopped? Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know its place;

And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this worthless bread.

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.