Quotes about Man

But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God:

However, a certain man drew his bow without taking special aim, and he struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. So the king said to his charioteer, “Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded!”

But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.

Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.

“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”

And Haman told the king, “For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,