Bible Verses About Man: Insignificance of

Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:

How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?

Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:

And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?

Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.

How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?

Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.

Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?

And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.

Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.

Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.