8 Bible Verses about Life Despised

Zebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, And Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.

And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

I loathe my life ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; But he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun? For all his days are but'sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.