So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:17So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:2So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
Ecclesiastes 4:3But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
Treasury of Scripture
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is worked under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
i hated
Numbers 11:15
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 3:20-22
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; …
work
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ezekiel 3:14
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
for
Ecclesiastes 2:11,22
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun…
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
