Quotes about Mortality
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
— Job 7:7
The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
— Job 7:8
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
— Job 7:9
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
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
— Job 7:21
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
— Job 7:21
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
— Job 8:9
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
— Job 9:2
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
— Job 10:5
If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
— Job 10:19
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
— Job 10:20