Quotes about Mortality
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
— Job 9:2
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
— Job 10:5
If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
— Job 10:19
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
— Job 10:20
before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
— Job 10:21
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
— Job 12:2
Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
— Job 13:19
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
— Job 13:28
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
— Job 14:1
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
— Job 14:2
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
— Job 14:5
But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
— Job 14:10