Ecclesiastes 2:17 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:17

17: So now I hate life because everything done here under the sun is so irrational. Everything is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Jonah 4:3

  1. Just kill me now, LORD! I'd rather be dead than alive because nothing I predicted is going to happen."

Ecclesiastes 2:11

  1. But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless. It was like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

Jeremiah 20:14

  1. Yet I curse the day I was born! May the day of my birth not be blessed.
  2. I curse the messenger who told my father, "Good news--you have a son!"
  3. Let him be destroyed like the cities of old that the LORD overthrew without mercy. Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,
  4. for he did not kill me at birth. Oh, that I had died in my mother's womb, that her body had been my grave!
  5. Why was I ever born? My entire life has been filled with trouble, sorrow, and shame.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

  1. Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless; it is like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

  1. Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

  1. So what do people get for all their hard work?

Job 3:20

  1. "Oh, why should light be given to the weary, and life to those in misery?
  2. They long for death, and it won't come. They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasure.
  3. It is a blessed relief when they finally die, when they find the grave.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

  1. I also noticed that throughout the world there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt!

Habakkuk 1:3

  1. Must I forever see this sin and misery all around me? Wherever I look, I see destruction and violence. I am surrounded by people who love to argue and fight.

Job 14:13

  1. "I wish you would hide me with the dead and forget me there until your anger has passed. But mark your calendar to think of me again!

Philippians 1:23

  1. I'm torn between two desires: Sometimes I want to live, and sometimes I long to go and be with Christ. That would be far better for me,
  2. but it is better for you that I live.
  3. I am convinced of this, so I will continue with you so that you will grow and experience the joy of your faith.

Numbers 11:15

  1. I'd rather you killed me than treat me like this. Please spare me this misery!"

1 Kings 19:4

  1. Then he went on alone into the desert, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD," he said. "Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

Jonah 4:8

  1. And as the sun grew hot, God sent a scorching east wind to blow on Jonah. The sun beat down on his head until he grew faint and wished to die. "Death is certainly better than this!" he exclaimed.

Job 7:15

  1. I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.
  2. I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.

Psalms 89:47

  1. Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!

Ecclesiastes 4:2

  1. So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living.

Ezekiel 3:14

  1. The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I went in bitterness and turmoil, but the LORD's hold on me was strong.
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