Thematic Bible: Weariness of


Thematic Bible



My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;

What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;


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