8 Bible Verses about Life Despised

“Zebulun was a people who despised their lives even to death,
And Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

“I waste away; I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

“I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”

A man will be praised according to his insight,
But one of perverse mind will be despised.

For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun? Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity.