Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 9:4
For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
Ecclesiastes 1:10
Is there anything of which men say, See, this is new? It has been in the old time which was before us.
Ecclesiastes 2:12
And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.
Ecclesiastes 3:15
Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Revelation 14:13
And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.
Job 3:17
There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
Isaiah 57:1
The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.
Isaiah 57:2
They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.
Philippians 1:21
For to me life is Christ and death is profit.
Philippians 1:22
But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.
Philippians 1:23
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
Jeremiah 22:10
Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.
2 Corinthians 5:8
We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.
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Job 3:20
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Genesis 27:46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?
Job 6:11
Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
Job 7:6
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Job 10:1
My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
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Hosea 9:14
O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
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