Ecclesiastes 2:17

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Job 14:13

*Oh that you would hide me in She'ol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ezekiel 3:14

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.*

Jonah 4:8

It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Yonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, *It is better for me to die than to live.*

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

Numbers 11:15

If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.