Ecclesiastes 2:17

New King James Version

Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the 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 broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Job 14:13

“Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, That You would conceal me 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 futility have You created all the children of men?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover I saw under the sun: In the place of judgment, Wickedness was there; And in the place of righteousness, Iniquity was there.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead, More than the living who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yet, better than both is he who has never existed, 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 desire. This also is vanity and grasping for the 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; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”

Jonah 4:8

And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You show me iniquity, And cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; There is strife, and contention arises.

Numbers 11:15

If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and do not let me see my wretchedness!”