Verse 20

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 43:14 : 14 and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
• Job 17:11-15 : 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. 12 They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness. 13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister; 15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
• Ps 39:6-7 : 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them. 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.
• 1 Cor 15:19 : 19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
• 1 Thess 3:3-4 : 3 that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed. 4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.