07- Man And Himself

MAN AND HIMSELF

There is a great benefit in asking oneself questions that enable our growth. The lists of questions in this category show how humans analyze things through self questioning. Studying these helps to see how man reflects on his own existence. In each of the questions below, please specify who the question is speaking for (God / Satan/ self/ Others.) and ask why.

1.Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? (Genesis 16:13) 2.Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? (Genesis 17:17) 3.And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? (Genesis 17:17) 4.Shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? (Genesis 18:12)

5.Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? (Genesis 21:7) 6.She said, If it be so, why am I thus? (Genesis 25:22) 7.What profit shall this birthright do to me? (Genesis 25:32) 8.And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? (Genesis 27:36) 9.Why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? (Genesis 27:45) 10.How hast thou broken forth? (Genesis 38:29)

11.And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not? (Exodus 17:7) 12.And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? (Leviticus 25:20)

13.But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? (Numbers 11:20) 14.And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? (Numbers 12:2) 15.Hath he not spoken also by us? (Numbers 12:2)

16.    If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? (Deuteronomy 7:17)

17.    Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? (Deuteronomy 12:30)

18.    And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? (Deuteronomy 18:21)

19.Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? (Deuteronomy 29:24) 20.What meaneth the heat of this great anger? (Deuteronomy 29:24)

21.    It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? (Deuteronomy 30:12)

22.    Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? (Deuteronomy 30:13)

23.    Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? (Deuteronomy 31:17)

24.    They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? (Judges 5:8)

25.    And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? (1 Samuel 4:3)

26.And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? (1 Samuel 4:6) 27.Woe unto us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? (1 Samuel 4:8)

28.    And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? (1 Samuel 4:14)

29.    They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? (1 Samuel 5:8)

30.And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? (1 Samuel 9:21) 31.And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? (1 Samuel 9:21)

32.    When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? (1 Samuel 10:2)

33.How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? (1 Samuel 14:30) 34.For had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? (1 Samuel 14:30)

35.    And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? (1 Samuel 18:8)

36.    Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness? (1 Samuel 20:30)

37.    And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me? (2 Samuel 6:9)

38.    And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead? (2 Samuel 12:18)

39.    And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? (2 Samuel 12:22)

40.    And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? (2 Samuel 23:17)

41.    And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar? (1 Kings 1:41)

42.Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? (2 Kings 5:12) 43.May I not wash in them, and be clean? (2 Kings 5:12)

44.    And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? (1 Chronicles 13:12)

45.    Who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? (2 Chronicles 2:6)

46.Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself? (Esther 6:6) 47.Why died I not from the womb? (Job 3:11) 48.Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? (Job 3:11) 49.Why did the knees prevent me? (Job 3:12) 50.Or why the breasts that I should suck? (Job 3:12) 51.Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? (Job 3:22) 52.Is my strength the strength of stones? (Job 6:12) 53.Or is my flesh of brass? (Job 6:12) 54.Is not my help in me? (Job 6:13) 55.When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? (Job 7:4) 56.Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? (Job 13:14) 57.He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? (Job 15:23) 58.Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? (Job 16:6) 59.Are there not mockers with me? (Job 17:2) 60.And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? (Job 17:2) 61.And where is now my hope? (Job 17:15)

62.But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? (Job 19:28) 63.As for me, is my complaint to man? (Job 21:4) 64.And if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? (Job 21:4) 65.What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? (Job 21:15) 66.And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? (Job 21:15) 67.Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? (Job 30:25) 68.Was not my soul grieved for the poor? (Job 30:25) 69.I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? (Job 31:1) 70.What then shall I do when God riseth up? (Job 31:14) 71.Should I lie against my right? (Job 34:6)

72.Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? (Job 35:10-11) 73.Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? (Psalms 2:1)

74.    For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? (Psalms 6:5)

75.Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? (Psalms 12:4) 76.A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? (Psalms 27:1) 77.The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalms 27:1) 78.Why art thou cast down, O my soul? (Psalms 42:5) 79.And why art thou disquieted in me? (Psalms 42:5) 80.Why art thou cast down, O my soul? (Psalms 42:11) 81.And why art thou disquieted within me? (Psalms 42:11) 82.Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? (Psalms 43:2) 83.Why art thou cast down, O my soul? (Psalms 43:5) 84.And why art thou disquieted within me? (Psalms 43:5)

85.Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? (Psalms 49:5) 86.Shall they escape by iniquity? (Psalms 56:7)

87.    Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear? (Psalms 59:7)

88.They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? (Psalms 64:5) 89.Will the Lord cast off for ever? (Psalms 77:7) 90.And will he be favourable no more? (Psalms 77:7) 91.Is his mercy clean gone for ever? (Psalms 77:8) 92.Doth his promise fail for evermore? (Psalms 77:8) 93.Hath God forgotten to be gracious? (Psalms 77:9) 94.Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? (Psalms 77:9) 95.Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? (Psalms 94:16) 96.Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? (Psalms 94:16) 97.What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? (Psalms 116:12) 98.The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? (Psalms 118:6) 99.So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport? (Proverbs 26:19) 100.Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? (Proverbs 30:9) 101.What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 1:3) 102.I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? (Ecclesiastes 2:2)

103.    And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? (Ecclesiastes 2:12)

104.    Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? (Ecclesiastes 2:15)

105.For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? (Ecclesiastes 2:16) 106.And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? (Ecclesiastes 2:19)

107.    There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? (Ecclesiastes 4:8)

108.    Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? (Ecclesiastes 7:10)

109.Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? (Song of Solomon 3:6) 110.I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? (Song of Solomon 5:3) 111.I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? (Song of Solomon 5:3)

112.    Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? (Song of Solomon 6:10)

113.    Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? (Song of Solomon 8:5)

114.We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? (Song of Solomon 8:8) 115.For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? (Isaiah 10:8) 116.Is not Calno as Carchemish? (Isaiah 10:9) 117.Is not Hamath as Arpad? (Isaiah 10:9) 118.Is not Samaria as Damascus? (Isaiah 10:9)

119.Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? (Isaiah 10:11) 120.What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? (Isaiah 14:32)

121.    And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? (Isaiah 20:6)

122.Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? (Isaiah 29:15) 123.And who knoweth us? (Isaiah 29:15) 124.What shall I say? (Isaiah 38:15) 125.The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? (Isaiah 40:6)

126.And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? (Isaiah 44:19) 127.Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? (Isaiah 44:19)

128.    He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? (Isaiah 44:20)

129.Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? (Isaiah 49:21) 130.And who hath brought up these? (Isaiah 49:21) 131.Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? (Isaiah 49:21) 132.He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? (Isaiah 50:8) 133.Let us stand together: who is mine adversary? (Isaiah 50:8) 134.Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? (Isaiah 50:9) 135.Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? (Isaiah 58:3) 136.Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? (Isaiah 58:3)

137.Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? (Jeremiah 2:6) 138.The priests said not, Where is the LORD? (Jeremiah 2:8) 139.Will he reserve his anger for ever? (Jeremiah 3:5) 140.Will he keep it to the end? (Jeremiah 3:5)

141.I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? (Jeremiah 8:6) 142.Is not her king in her? (Jeremiah 8:19)

143.Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? (Jeremiah 21:13) 144.Or who shall enter into our habitations? (Jeremiah 21:13)

145.Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? (Jeremiah 46:7) 146.Thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? (Jeremiah 47:6)

147.How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (Jeremiah 47:7) 148.That trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? (Jeremiah 49:4)

149.Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? (Lamentations 3:37) 150.Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? (Lamentations 3:38)

151.Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? (Lamentations 3:39) 152.Yet say ye, Why? (Ezekiel 18:19) 153.Doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? (Ezekiel 18:19)

154.For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us? (Hosea 10:3) 155.Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? (Hosea 14:8)

156.Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength? (Amos 6:13) 157.Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? (Amos 8:5)

158.    And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? (Amos 8:5)

159.    That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? (Amos 8:6)

160.The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? (Obadiah 1:3) 161.Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? (Micah 6:6) 162.Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? (Micah 6:6)

163.    Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? (Micah 6:7)

164.Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? (Micah 6:7) 165.Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? (Habakkuk 3:8) 166.Yet ye say, Wherefore? (Malachi 2:14)

167.    Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? (Malachi 2:17)

168.Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? (Malachi 3:7) 169.Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? (Malachi 3:8) 170.Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? (Matthew 6:31) 171.Or, What shall we drink? (Matthew 6:31) 172.Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (Matthew 6:31)

173.    And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? (Mark 14:4)

174.    And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? (Luke 9:9)

175.And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? (Luke 12:17) 176.Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? (Luke 16:3) 177.Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? (Luke 20:13)

178.    Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? (Acts 4:25)

179.    For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? (Romans 3:7)

180.    And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? (Romans 3:8)

181.But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (Romans 10:6) 182.Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (Romans 10:7)

183.    For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? (1 Corinthians 2:11)

184.(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? (Ephesians 4:9) 185.And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? (2 Peter 3:4)

186.Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? (1 John 5:5) 187.For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? (Revelation 6:17