12 Bible Verses about Questioning Life

My heart turned to grief over all for which I had labored 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 also is vanity and a great evil. What does a man get for all his work, and for the desire of his heart with which he has done his work under the sun?

What profit does a man have of all his labor that he works under the sun?

What profit is there to the worker in his work?

Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death?

Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?

Jesus answered him: Why are you questioning me about what is good? There is one who is good. If you desire life, obey the Law.

([Psalm of David]) The fool says in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah) (Psalm 10:4). They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things.

Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. It is just too much, Jehovah, he prayed. Take away my life. I could just as well be dead. Stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant. An angel touched him and said: Get up and eat some food.

I hated life. Everything under the sun was evil to me. All is vanity and grasping for the wind. I hated all the work I had done under the sun, because I would leave it behind for the man who comes after me.

Who is this that conceals (hides) counsel using words without knowledge? Prepare yourself like a man! I will question you, and you shall answer me. Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.read more.
Who determined its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its foundations set and who laid its cornerstone? while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb? When I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said: 'This far you may come and no farther'; here is where your proud waves halt? Have you ever commanded the morning, or shown the dawn its place?

and criticized God and Moses. They said: Why did you make us leave Egypt only to let us die in the desert? There is no bread or water, and we cannot stand this awful food!

Men will seek death in those days and will not find it. They will desire to die and death will elude them.