Ecclesiastes 2:17

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

And I hated life, for evil to me the work done under the sun: for all vanity and striving of the spirit

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

Job 14:13

Who will give thou wilt hide me in hades? wilt thou cover me till the turning away of thine anger? wilt thou set for me a limit, and wilt thou remember me?

Psalm 89:47

Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I will give my heart to know wisdom, and the knowledge of praise and understanding: I knew this also it is the striving of the spirit

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what was to man in all his labor, and in the striving of his heart, he labored under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I praise the dead already dead more than the living they yet living.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And good above them two which were not yet, which saw not the evil work which was done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Good the sight of the eyes above the going of the soul. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit

Ezekiel 3:14

And the spirit lifted me up, and it will take me and I shall go bitter, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.

Jonah 4:8

And it will be as the sun rose, and God will appoint a sultry east wind; and the sun struck upon the head of Jonah, and he will faint, and he will ask his soul to die, and say, It is good for me to die rather than live.

Habakkuk 1:3

Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up.

Numbers 11:15

And if so thou doest to me, killing, kill me now, if I found grace in thine eyes; and I shall not look upon my evil