Ecclesiastes 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 Ecclesiastes 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, …
תרגומים נוספים
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.
הפניות צולבות
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour …
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and …
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, …
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of …
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured …