8 Bible Verses about Life Despised

Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to 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, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.