Thematic Bible: Weariness of


Thematic Bible



My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in his soul to 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 takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these who are of the daughters of this land, why should I want to live?

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

What is my strength that I should hope? What is my end that I should prolong my life?

Therefore I hated life because every work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all was vanity and vexation of spirit.

So I returned and considered all the violence that is done under the sun and behold the tears of such as are oppressed, and they have no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but the oppressed had no comforter. Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.