Ecclesiastes 2:17

Is There Real Happiness In Life?

¹⁶ For there is no [more] lasting remembrance of the wise man than of the fool, since in the days to come all will be long forgotten. And how does the wise man die? Even as the fool! ¹⁷ So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun caused me only great sorrow; because all is futility and chasing after the wind. ¹⁸ So I hated all the fruit (gain) of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will succeed me.

All is Vanity

Striving After Wind

On Earth

Under the Sun

Chasing After The Wind

Everything Is Meaningless

Striving After Wind

Vexation Of Spirit

No

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I considered all which my hands had done and labored to do, and behold, all was vanity and chasing after the wind and there was no profit (nothing of lasting value) under the sun.

Numbers 11:15

So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Job 3:20-22

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

Job 7:15-16

So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pain.

Job 14:13

“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!

Psalm 89:47

Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity, a futile grasping and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does a man get from all his labor and from the striving and sorrow of his heart with which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

So I congratulated and thought more fortunate are those who are already dead than the living who are still living.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

What the eyes see [enjoying what is available] is better than [craving] what the soul desires. This too is futility and chasing after the wind.

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

Ezekiel 3:14

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went embittered [by the sins of Israel] in the rage of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun came up God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he fainted and he wished to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You make me see iniquity,
And cause me to look on wickedness?
For destruction and violence are before me;
Strife continues and contention arises.

Philippians 1:23-25

But I am hard-pressed between the two. I have the desire to leave [this world] and be with Christ, for that is far, far better;