Quotes about Humanity
I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
- Ecclesiastes 3:18
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20
There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:
- Ecclesiastes 6:1
All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
- Ecclesiastes 6:7
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
- Ecclesiastes 7:20
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- Isaiah 2:22
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:12
I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
- Isaiah 38:11
And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
- Isaiah 40:5
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
- Isaiah 40:7
Just as many were appalled at Him—His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—
- Isaiah 52:14