Ecclesiastes 2:17
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17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for (A)all is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Jonah 4:3
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3 (A)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, (B)for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
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11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was (A)vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing (B)to be gained under the sun.
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Philippians 1:23-25
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23 (A)I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is (B)to depart and (C)be with Christ, for that is far better. 24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. 25 (D)Convinced of this, (E)I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your (F)progress and (G)joy in the faith,
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Habakkuk 1:3
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3 (A)Why do you make me see iniquity,
and why do you idly look at wrong?
Destruction (B)and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
Jonah 4:8
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8 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching (A)east wind, (B)and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he (C)was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, (D)“It is better for me to die than to live.”
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Ezekiel 3:14
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14 (A)The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the (B)hand of the Lord being strong upon me.
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
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14 (A)Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
(B)making him very glad.
16 Let that man be like (C)the cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
(D)let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
17 (E)because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
18 (F)Why did I come out from the womb
(G)to see toil and sorrow,
and spend my days in shame?
Ecclesiastes 6:9
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9 Better (A)is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is (B)vanity and a striving after wind.
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
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2 And I (A)thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16
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From Dust to Dust
16 Moreover, (A)I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even (B)there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22
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22 What has a man from (A)all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
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14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is (A)vanity[a] and a striving after wind.[b]
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- Ecclesiastes 1:14 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 Or a feeding on wind; compare Hosea 12:1 (also in Ecclesiastes 1:17; 2:11, 17, 26; 4:4, 6, 16; 6:9)
Psalm 89:47
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47 (A)Remember (B)how short my (C)time is!
For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
Job 14:13
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13 Oh that you would (A)hide me in (B)Sheol,
that you would (C)conceal me (D)until your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 7:15-16
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15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than my (A)bones.
16 I (B)loathe my life; I would not live forever.
(C)Leave me alone, for my days are (D)a breath.
Job 3:20-22
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20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to (A)the bitter in soul,
21 who (B)long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for (C)hidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
1 Kings 19:4
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4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. (A)And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
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Numbers 11:15
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15 If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”
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