Quotes about Life
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
— Job 3:12
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
— Job 3:20
who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
— Job 3:22
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
— Job 3:23
Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
— Job 4:21
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
— Job 5:7
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
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
— Job 7:3
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
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
— Job 7:15