Bible Verses About Man

Here is the genealogy of Adam. On the day that God created man he made him in the likeness of God;

he created them male and female; he blessed them and called them Adam [humankind, man] on the day they were created.

The fear and dread of you will be upon every wild animal, every bird in the air, every creature populating the ground, and all the fish in the sea; they have been handed over to you.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; just as I gave you green plants before, so now I give you everything —

[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;

shattered between morning and evening; they perish forever, and no one takes notice.

Their cord within them is pulled up; then they die, without ever gaining wisdom.'

I will say to God, 'Don't condemn me! Tell me why you are contending with me.

Do you gain some advantage from oppressing, from spurning what your own hands made, from shining on the schemes of the wicked?

Your own hands shaped me, they made me; so why do you turn and destroy me?

Please remember that you made me, like clay; will you return me to dust?

Didn't you pour me out like milk, then let me thicken like cheese?

You clothed me with skin and flesh you knit me together with bones and sinews.

"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.