8 Bible Verses about Life Despised

Zebulun is a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also -- on high places of the field.

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, 'Better is my death than my life.'

According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also is vanity.