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.

Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would conceal me, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Cursed be the day on which I was born: let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed.

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Work

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

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.

Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention.

For

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

General references

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.