Quotes about Mortality
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
- Job 5:26
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
- Job 7:1
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
- Job 7:5
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 7:6
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Job 7:7
The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
- Job 7:8
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
- Job 7:9
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Job 7:15
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- Job 7:16
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Job 7:21
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Job 7:21
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
- Job 8:9