Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Numbers 11:15
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."
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. 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."
Job 3:20-22
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:15-16
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
Job 14:13
Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?
Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!
Ezekiel 3:14
The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."
Jonah 4:8
When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
Philippians 1:23-25
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.