8 Bible Verses about Life Despised

Zeb'ulun is a people that jeoparded their lives to the death; Naph'tali too, on the heights of the field.

And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.

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, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond our power, so as to despair even of living.

For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.