Bible Verses About Man: Insignificance of

[God] doesn't trust his own servants, he finds fault even with his angels;

much more those living in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust. They are crushed more easily than a worm;

"Can a human be of advantage to God? Can even the wisest benefit him?

Does Shaddai gain if you are righteous? Does he profit if you make your ways blameless?

"Is he rebuking you because you fear him? Is this why he enters into judgment with you?

Isn't it because your wickedness is great? Aren't your iniquities endless?

How then can humans be righteous with God? How can those born of women be clean?

Why, before him even the moon lacks brightness, and the stars themselves are not pure.

How much less a human, who is merely a maggot, a mortal, who is only a worm?!"

"Are you so convinced you are right, that you say, 'I am more just than God'?

For you ask what advantage it is to you, 'How do I gain from not sinning?'

"Here is my answer to you, to you and to your friends:

Look at the heavens and see; observe the skies, high above you.

If you sin, how do you hurt him? If your crimes are many, how do you affect him?

If you are righteous, what do you give him? What benefit does he get from you?

Your wickedness can affect only others like you, and your righteousness only other human beings.

"Have you ever in your life called up the dawn and made the morning know its place,

so that it could take hold of the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place -

what are mere mortals, that you concern yourself with them; humans, that you watch over them with such care?

ADONAI, what are mere mortals, that you notice them at all; humans, that you think about them?

Man is like a puff of wind, his days like a fleeting shadow.