Ecclesiastes 2:17

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.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

Jonah 4:8

And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I praised the dead rather than the living:

Habakkuk 1:3

Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more powerful.

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.

Ezekiel 3:14

The spirit also lifted me and took me up: and I went away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

Job 14:13

Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

1 Kings 19:4

And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper-tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me. Lord, take away my soul; for I am no better than my fathers.

Numbers 11:15

But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me: and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.