Ecclesiastes 2:17

Young's Literal Translation 1898

And I have hated life, for sad to me [is] the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, ‘Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I [am] not better than my fathers.’

Job 14:13

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

Psalm 89:47

Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit!

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] vexation of spirit;

Ecclesiastes 2:11

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment — there [is] the wicked; and the place of righteousness — there [is] the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And better than both of them [is] he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ezekiel 3:14

And a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah on me [is] strong.

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better [is] my death than my life.’

Jonah 4:8

And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, ‘Better [is] my death than my life.’

Habakkuk 1:3

Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence [are] before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift [itself] up,

Numbers 11:15

and if thus Thou art doing to me — slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.’