Ecclesiastes 2:20 Cross References - Coverdale

²⁰ So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all soch trauayle, as I toke vnder the Sonne:

¹⁴ The Allmightie God geue you mercy in the sight of ye man, that he maye let you haue youre other brother, and Ben Iamin. As for me, I must be as one, that is robbed of his children.

¹¹ My dayes are past, my thoughtes are vanished awaye, which haue vexed myne herte, ¹² chaunginge the night in to daye, & ye light in to darcknes. ¹³ Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I must make my bed in the darcke. ¹⁴ I call corrupcion my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my sister. ¹⁵ What helpeth then my longe tarienge? Or, who wil fulfill the thinge, that I loke for?

⁶ Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge? ⁷ Sela. Yee euery man walketh as it were a shadowe, and disquieteth him self in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, and can not tell to whom he gathereth them.

¹⁹ Yf in this life onely we hope on Christ, then are we of all men the most miserable.

⁸ Brethren we wolde not haue you ignoraunt of oure trouble, which happened vnto vs in Asia, for we were greued out off measure passynge strength, so that we euen dispared of life, ⁹ and had concluded in oure selues yt we must nedes dye. But this was done, because we shulde not put oure trust in oure selues, but in God, which rayseth vp the deed to life agayne: ¹⁰ which delyuered vs from so greate a death, and yet delyuereth daylie, On whom we trust, that he wil delyuer vs here after also,

³ that noman shulde be moued in these troubles: (for ye youre selues knowe, that we are euen appoynted there vnto. ⁴ And whan we were with you, we tolde you before, that we shulde suffre tribulacion, euen as it is come to passe, & as ye knowe.)