Ecclesiastes 2:17

The Scriptures 1998

And I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was evil on me, for all is futile and feeding on 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 prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Job 14:13

If only You would hide me in the grave, conceal me until Your wrath turns away. Set me a time, and remember me!

Psalm 89:47

Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. And see, all was futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom – and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does a man get for all his labour and strain of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Then again I saw under the sun: In the place of right-ruling, wrongness was there. And in the place of righteousness, wrongness was there.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I commended the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And 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

What the eyes see is better than what the desire goes after. That too is futile and feeding on wind.

Ezekiel 3:14

And the Spirit lifted me and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, while the hand of יהוה  was strong upon me.

Jonah 4:3

“And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”

Jonah 4:8

And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun smote on Yonah’s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.

Numbers 11:15

“And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”