Ecclesiastes 2:17

Which verses does Ecclesiastes 2:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Ecclesiastes 2:115 votes

   Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

2. Ecclesiastes 4:23 votes

   So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

3. Jonah 4:83 votes

   As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

4. Numbers 11:152 votes

   If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

5. 1 Kings 19:42 votes

   while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

6. Job 3:20–222 votes

   Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, …

7. Job 7:15–162 votes

   so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

8. Job 14:132 votes

   If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

9. Psalm 89:472 votes

   Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

10. Ecclesiastes 1:142 votes

    I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

11. Ecclesiastes 2:222 votes

    For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

12. Ecclesiastes 3:162 votes
13. Ecclesiastes 6:92 votes
14. Jeremiah 20:14–182 votes
15. Ezekiel 3:142 votes
16. Jonah 4:32 votes
17. Habakkuk 1:32 votes
18. Philippians 1:23–251 vote

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 2:17?

The 10 strongest of 19.

• Ecclesiastes 3:1 19
• Job 14:1 10
• Luke 14:26 9
• Ecclesiastes 1:14 8
• Ecclesiastes 2:21 6
• Psalm 39:6 5
• Ecclesiastes 1:2 5
• John 12:25 5
• Ecclesiastes 4:2 4
• Ecclesiastes 4:16 3