8 Bible Verses about Weariness Of Life
Most Relevant Verses
And Rebekah spake to Isaac, "I am weary of my life, for fear of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such one as these are, or of the daughters of the land, what lust should I have to live?"
"Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts?
What power have I to endure? Or, what is mine end, that my soul might be patient?
my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,
Thus began I to be weary of my life, in so much that I could away with nothing that is done under the Sun, for all was but vanity and vexation of mind:
So I turned me, and considered all the violent wrong that is done under the Sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed; and there was no man to comfort them or that would deliver and defend them from the violence of their oppressors.
Wherefore I judged those that are dead, to be more happy than such as be alive.