Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

And 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 who are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Remove your scourge away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Since there are many things that increase vanity, how is man the better?

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?