But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
Ecclesiastes 2:17 - The Scriptures 2009 And I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was evil on me, for all is futile and feeding on wind. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it. American Standard Version (1901) So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind. Common English Bible So I hated life, because the things that happen under the sun were troublesome to me. Definitely, everything is pointless—just wind chasing. Catholic Public Domain Version And, because of this, my life wearied me, since I saw that everything under the sun is evil, and everything is empty and an affliction of the spirit. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit. |
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
If only You would hide me in She’ol, conceal me until Your wrath turns away. Set for me a law, and remember me!
Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. And see, all was futile and feeding on wind.
And I set my heart to know wisdom – and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind.
But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.
For what does a man get for all his labour and strain of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?
Then again I saw under the sun: In the place of right-ruling, wrongness was there. And in the place of righteousness, wrongness was there.
Therefore I commended the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive.
And better than both is he who has never existed, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
What the eyes see is better than what the desire goes after. That too is futile and feeding on wind.
And the Spirit lifted me and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, while the hand of יהוה was strong upon me.
“And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”
And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck on Yonah’s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.
“And if You are doing this to me, kill me – please kill me, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”