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Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
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Job 7:15-16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Job 14:13
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;
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Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Habakkuk 1:3
Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?
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Philippians 1:23-25
But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;
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Numbers 11:15
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man- child is born unto thee; making him very glad.And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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Ezekiel 3:14
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
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Psalms 89:47
Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
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Job 3:20-22
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
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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 Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.