Ecclesiastes 2:17
"Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit."
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- Ecclesiastes 2:11
"Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 4:2
"Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive."
Read in chapter → - Jonah 4:8
"And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 1:14
"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 6:9
"Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit."
Read in chapter → - Job 14:13
"O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 20:14
"Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 3:16
"And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there."
Read in chapter → - Job 7:15
"So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life."
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