Ecclesiastes 2:17 Cross References - ECB

¹⁷ And I hated life; because the work worked under the sun is evil to me; for all is vanity and gnawing of spirit.

¹⁵ And if you work thus with me, slaughter me! I beseech you, slaughter me! if I find charism in your eyes; that I not see my evil.

⁴ and goes by himself a journey of a day into the wilderness and comes and settles under one juniper: and he asks for his soul to die; and says, Enough now, O Yah Veh, take away my soul; for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why gives he light to him in misery and life to the bitter soul; ²¹ who await death, and so be it not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; ²² who cheer and twirl and rejoice, when they can find the tomb?

¹⁵ so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my bones. ¹⁶ I spurn; I live not eternally; let me decease; for my days are vanity.

¹³ Who gives, that you hide me in sheol? - that you secret me, until your wrath turns? - that you set me a statute and remember me?

⁴⁷ Remember how transcient! Created you all sons of humanity in vain?

¹⁴ I saw all the works worked under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and gnawing of spirit.

¹¹ Then I faced all the works my hands worked and on the toil I toiled to work; and behold, all is vanity and gnawing of spirit and there is no advantage under the sun.

²² For what has humanity of all his toil and of the gnawing of his heart wherein he toiled under the sun?

¹⁶ And again, I saw under the sun the place of judgment - that wickedness was there; and the place of justness - that wickedness was there.

² I laud the dead who already died more than the living who yet live.

⁹ Better the visage of the eyes than the walking of the soul; this is also vanity and gnawing of spirit.

¹⁴ Curse the day I was birthed; bless not the day my mother birthed me. ¹⁵ Curse the man who evangelized to my father, saying, A male son is birthed to you; in cheering, cheer him: ¹⁶ so be that man, as the cities Yah Veh turned against and sighed not - to hear the cry in the morning, and the shout at noon time: ¹⁷ because he executed me not from the womb that my mother become my tomb and her womb eternally great. ¹⁸ Why came I forth from the womb - to see toil and grief? To finish off my days with shame?

¹⁴ And the spirit lifts me, and takes me away; and I go in bitterness, in the fury of my spirit; and the hand of Yah Veh strengthens me.

³ and now, O Yah Veh, I beseech you, take my soul from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ and so be it, when the sun rises, Elohim numbers a vehement east wind; and the sun smites on the head of Yonah so that he languishes; and asks of his soul to die, and says, It is better for me to die than to live.

³ Why show me mischief, and have me to scan at toil? With ravage and violence in front of me? And strife and contention lifting themselves?

²³ For I am overtaken by two, having a panting to depart and to be with Messiah; which is rather much better: ²⁴ and to abide in the flesh is necessary for you. ²⁵ And confiding in this, I know that I abide and remain with you all to your advancement and cheer of the trust;