Quotes about Purpose
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
— Esther 4:14
saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
— Job 1:21
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
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
— Job 3:20
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
— Job 3:23
What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
— Job 7:17
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
— Job 10:8
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
— Job 10:9
Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
— Job 10:13
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