Ecclesiastes 2:20 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:20

20: So I turned in despair from hard work. It was not the answer to my search for satisfaction in this life.

Psalms 39:6

  1. We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth for someone else to spend.
  2. And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you.

Job 17:11

  1. My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart's desires are broken.
  2. They say that night is day and day is night; how they pervert the truth!
  3. I might go to the grave and make my bed in darkness.
  4. And I might call the grave my father, and the worm my mother and my sister.
  5. But where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?

2 Corinthians 1:8

  1. I think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and completely overwhelmed, and we thought we would never live through it.
  2. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we learned not to rely on ourselves, but on God who can raise the dead.
  3. And he did deliver us from mortal danger. And we are confident that he will continue to deliver us.

Genesis 43:14

  1. May God Almighty give you mercy as you go before the man, that he might release Simeon and return Benjamin. And if I must bear the anguish of their deaths, then so be it."

1 Thessalonians 3:3

  1. and to keep you from becoming disturbed by the troubles you were going through. But, of course, you know that such troubles are going to happen to us Christians.
  2. Even while we were with you, we warned you that troubles would soon come--and they did, as you well know.

1 Corinthians 15:19

  1. And if we have hope in Christ only for this life, we are the most miserable people in the world.
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