Quotes about Purpose
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
Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
- Job 15:3
“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
- Job 22:2