8 Bible Verses about Life Despised

Zebulun and Naphtali were a people who put their lives in danger of death in the high places of the field.

Yes, I hated all my labor which I had done under the sun; that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.

I despise them; I will not live always; let me alone, for my days are vanity.

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

And it happened when the sun shone, God ordained a scorching east wind. And the sun beat on the head of Jonah, so that he fainted. And he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death than my life.

A man shall be praised according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.