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Ecclesiastes 4:2
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

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Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Genesis 27:46
Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 10:1
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Revelation 14:13
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”

Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Isaiah 57:2
He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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