Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Life » Of the spirit » Weariness of
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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.”
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth [these insolent wives of Esau]. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
“What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?
And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure?
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.
Then I returned and considered all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun: And I beheld the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they [too] had no comforter. So I praised and thought more fortunate those who have been long dead than the living, who are still alive.
Life » Conditions of receiving » Hated
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.
“I waste away and loathe my life; I will not live forever.
Let me alone, for my days are but a breath [futile and without substance].
Life » Sacredness of, an inference from what is taught in the law concerning murder » Hated
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.
natural Life » The dissatisfied despise
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.
Murmuring » Instances of » Solomon
So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it. And I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will succeed me.