Prediger 2:17
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Context
This verse from Prediger Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Qohelet reports his experiments in pleasure, building projects, vineyards, gardens, and acquiring wealth, finding that all was vanity and chasing after wind. He observes that the wise person dies just like the fool. Yet there is some good in toil, …
Andere Übersetzungen
So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
And I have hated life, for sad to me <FI>is<Fi> the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole <FI>is<Fi> vanity and vexation of spirit.
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Querverweise
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with …
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of …
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, …
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under …
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured …
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of …
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, …
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.