12 Bible Verses about Questioning Life

So {I began to despair} of all the toil with which I toiled under the sun. For although a person may toil with great wisdom and skill, he must leave his reward to someone who has not toiled for it. This also [is] vanity and a great calamity. For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

What does a person gain in all his toil with which he toils under the sun?

What does the worker gain in his toil?

Wretched man [that] I [am]! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.

And he said to him, "Why are you asking me about [what is] good? There is one [who is] good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments!"

[The] fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.

Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors." He lay down and fell asleep under a certain broom tree, and suddenly this angel [was] touching him and said to him, "Get up, eat!"

So I hated life because the work done under the sun [is] grievous to me. For everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me.

"Who [is] this darkening counsel by words without knowledge? {Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man}, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me. "Where were you at my laying the foundation of [the] earth? Tell [me], if you possess understanding.read more.
Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched [the] measuring line upon it? On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, when [the] morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? "Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went out of [the] womb, at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors, and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'? "Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,

The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest [this] miserable food."

And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.