Ecclesiastes 4:2

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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Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

Job 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 3:13
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

Job 3:18
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

Job 3:19
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

Job 3:21
who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

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1 Kings 14:13
All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

2 Kings 22:20
‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’ ” ’ ” So they brought this message back to the king.

2 Kings 23:30
His servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.

2 Chronicles 35:23
The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”

2 Chronicles 35:24
So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Lamentations 4:9
Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.

Luke 23:28
But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

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Job 18:19
He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

Job 21:7
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Psalms 73:2
But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

Psalms 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Psalms 73:17
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Habakkuk 1:13
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

1 Corinthians 15:31
I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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Psalms 106:47
Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!

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Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 2:10
Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Habakkuk 2:20
But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

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Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Ecclesiastes 3:13
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.

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Job 40:2
“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Proverbs 17:12
Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:18
For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

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Isaiah 26:19
Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

1 Thessalonians 4:13
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

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Job 35:10
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Habakkuk 3:17
For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,

Habakkuk 3:18
yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

Zephaniah 1:13
Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.

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Romans 2:15
in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

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Romans 8:18
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

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