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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ecc 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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Num 11:15 |
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. |
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1Ki 19:4 |
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers. |
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Job 3:20 |
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; |
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Job 3:21 |
Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; |
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Job 3:22 |
Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? |
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Job 7:15 |
So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life. |
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Job 7:16 |
I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity. |
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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! |
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Jer 20:14 |
Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. |
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Jer 20:15 |
Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. |
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Jer 20:16 |
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; |
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Jer 20:17 |
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me]. |
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Jer 20:18 |
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? |
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Jon 4:3 |
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live. |
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Jon 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. |
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Phl 1:23 |
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: |
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Phl 1:24 |
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you. |
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Phl 1:25 |
And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; |
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Ecc 1:14 |
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. |
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Ecc 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. |
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Eze 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. |
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Hab 1:3 |
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise up strife and contention. |
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Ecc 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. |
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Ecc 2:22 |
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? |
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Ecc 6:9 |
Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit. |
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Psa 89:47 |
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 2:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Ecc/2/17.html>.
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