Ecclesiastes 2:17

Is There Real Happiness In Life?

¹⁶ For there is no remembrance of a wise man, more than of a dullard, unto times age-abiding, - seeing that, already, in the days to come, all hath been forgotten, how then cometh it that the wise man dieth equally with the dullard? ¹⁷ Therefore I hated life, for, a vexation unto me, was the work which was done under the sun, - for, all, was vanity, and a feeding on wind. ¹⁸ Therefore hated, I, all my toil, wherein I was toiling, under the sun, - in that I should leave it for the man who should come after 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

When, I, looked upon all my works, which my hands had made, and on my toil, whereon I had toilsomely wrought, then lo! all, was vanity, and feeding on wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Numbers 11:15

But if, in this way, thou art going to deal with me, slay me, I beseech thee, slay, if I have found favour in thine eyes, - and let me not see my grief,

1 Kings 19:4

But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day's journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub, - and asked for his life, that he might die, and said - Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.

Job 3:20-22

Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul? -

Job 7:15-16

So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than these my bones!

Job 14:13

Oh that, in hades, thou wouldst hide me! that thou wouldst keep me secret, until the turn of thine anger, that thou wouldst set for me a fixed time, and remember me:

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all the works which were done under the sun, - and lo! all, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what hath the man for all his toil, and for the striving of his heart, - wherein, he himself, toiled under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Then, again, I saw under the sun, the place of justice, that there was lawlessness, and, the place of righteousness, that there was lawlessness.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

So, I, pronounced happy the dead, who were, already, dead, - more than the living, who were living, still;

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better what the eyes behold, than the wandering of desire, - even this, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Accursed, be the day on which I was born, - The day when my mother bare me, let it not be blessed!

Ezekiel 3:14

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away, - and I went bitterly, in the rage of my spirit, but the hand of Yahweh upon me was strong.

Jonah 4:3

Now, therefore, O Yahweh, take, I pray thee, my life from me, - for it were better for me, to die, than, to live.

Jonah 4:8

And it came to pass, at the breaking forth of the sun, that God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun smote upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint, - and asked his life, that he might die, and said, It were better for me, to die, than, to live.

Habakkuk 1:3

Wherefore shouldst thou let me see iniquity, and, wrong, shouldst let me behold, and, force and violence, be straight before me, - and there should have ever been someone who, contention and strife, would uphold?

Philippians 1:23-25

I am held in constraint, however, by reason of the two, - having, the coveting, to be released, and to be with, Christ, for it were far better!