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Ecclesiastes 2:17

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¶ 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.

Therefore I hated {H8130} life {H2416}; because the work {H4639} that is wrought {H6213} under the sun {H8121} is grievous {H7451} unto me: for all is vanity {H1892} and vexation {H7469} of spirit {H7307}.

So I came to hate life, because the activities done under the sun were loathesome to me, since everything is meaningless and feeding on wind.

So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Cross-References

  • Ecclesiastes 2:11 (4 votes)

    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.

  • Jonah 4:8 (3 votes)

    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.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:2 (3 votes)

    Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

  • Jeremiah 20:14 (2 votes)

    ¶ Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

  • Jeremiah 20:18 (2 votes)

    Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Job 14:13 (2 votes)

    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!

  • Psalms 89:47 (2 votes)

    Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?