Thematic Bible: Weariness of


Thematic Bible



I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”


Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

“Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,

“What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should endure?

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.