Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous to me. For all is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Numbers 11:15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness.
Job 3:20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:16I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Psalms 89:47O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 3:16And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 2:13-17
Superiority of Wisdom to Folly. 12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. 13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. 14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. 15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more… Read the whole commentary →