Ecclesiastes 2:17
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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i hated

Numbers 11:15
If 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 19:4
while 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 3:20-22
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, . . .

Job 7:15, 16
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. . . .

Job 14:13
If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger passes. If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me.

Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. . . .

Jonah 4:3, 8
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live." . . .

Philippians 1:23-25
I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed. . . .

work

Ecclesiastes 1:14
I 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 3:16
Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

Ezekiel 3:14
So 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.

Habakkuk 1:3
Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

for

Ecclesiastes 2:11, 22
Yet 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 6:9
Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Psalm 89:47
Remember how short is my lifespan. For what futility You have created all men!

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

International Standard Version
So I hated life, because whatever is done on earth causes me trouble—it's all pointless, like chasing after the wind.

NET Bible
So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile--like chasing the wind.
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