Ecclesiastes 2:17

New Century Version

So I hated life. It made me sad to think that everything here on earth is useless, like chasing the wind.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

Then Elijah walked for a whole day into the desert. He sat down under a bush and asked to die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he prayed. “Let me die. I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 14:13

“I wish you would hide me in the grave; hide me until your anger is gone. I wish you would set a time and then remember me!

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is. Why did you create us? For nothing?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I looked at everything done on earth and saw that it is all useless, like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

So I decided to find out about wisdom and knowledge and also about foolish thinking, but this turned out to be like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But then I looked at what I had done, and I thought about all the hard work. Suddenly I realized it was useless, like chasing the wind. There is nothing to gain from anything we do here on earth.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What do people get for all their work and struggling here on earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I also saw this here on earth: Where there should have been justice, there was evil; where there should have been right, there was wrong.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

I decided that the dead are better off than the living.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But those who have never been born are better off still; they have not seen the evil that is done here on earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

It is better to see what you have than to want more. Wanting more is useless— like chasing the wind.

Ezekiel 3:14

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I was unhappy and angry, and I felt the great power of the Lord.

Jonah 4:3

So now I ask you, Lord, please kill me. It is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

As the sun rose higher in the sky, God sent a very hot east wind to blow, and the sun became so hot on Jonah’s head that he became very weak and wished he were dead. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you make me see wrong things and make me look at trouble? People are destroying things and hurting others in front of me; they are arguing and fighting.

Numbers 11:15

If you are going to continue doing this to me, then kill me now. If you care about me, put me to death, and then I won’t have any more troubles.”