Ecclesiastes 2:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And I have hated life, for sad to me <FI>is<Fi> the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole <FI>is<Fi> vanity and vexation of spirit.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 2:17 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
- 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- Job 14:13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
- Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 3:16Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.
- Ecclesiastes 4:2So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
- Ecclesiastes 6:9Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
- Ezekiel 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.
- Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
- Habakkuk 1:3Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
- Philippians 1:23I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
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