Quotes about Existence
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Job 3:11
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
- Job 3:12
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
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- Job 7:16
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
- Job 10:5
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
- Job 10:8
You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
- Job 10:11
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
- Job 10:18
If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 10:19
“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