Bible Verses About Man: Insignificance of

Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his Angels.

Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?

May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?

Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?

Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?

Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?

And howe may a man be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman?

Behold, he wil giue no light to the moone, and the starres are vncleane in his sight.

How much more man, a worme, euen the sonne of man, which is but a worme?

Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God?

For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me from my sinne?

Therefore will I answere thee, and thy companions with thee.

Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him?

If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand?

Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,

That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,

What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?

Lord, what is man that thou regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him!

Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.