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Ecclesiastes 2:11
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. (niv)
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Jonah 4:3
Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.” (niv)
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Jonah 4:8
When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said,“ It would be better for me to die than to live.” (niv)
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Job 7:15-16
so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning. (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (niv)
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Job 14:13
“ If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me! (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (niv)
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Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 2:22
What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? (niv)
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Philippians 1:23-25
I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far;but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, (niv)
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Numbers 11:15
If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me— if I have found favor in your eyes— and do not let me face my own ruin.” (niv)
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad, saying,“ A child is born to you— a son!”May that man be like the towns the Lord overthrew without pity. May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon.For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame? (niv)
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Ezekiel 3:14
The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the Lord on me. (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 3:16
And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment— wickedness was there, in the place of justice— wickedness was there. (niv)
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Psalms 89:47
Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity! (niv)
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Job 3:20-22
“ Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave? (niv)
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1 Kings 19 4
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die.“ I have had enough, Lord,” he said.“ Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” (niv)