Ecclesiastes 2:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Job 14:13

If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

Psalm 89:47

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Ezekiel 3:14

And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.

Jonah 4:3

So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

Jonah 4:8

Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

Numbers 11:15

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.