Verse 20

And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 43:14 : 14 and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved -- I am bereaved.'
• Job 17:11-15 : 11 My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart! 12 Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness. 13 If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. 14 To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm. 15 And where `is' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
• Ps 39:6-7 : 6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them. 7 And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it `is' of Thee.
• 1 Cor 15:19 : 19 if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life; 9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead, 10 who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
• 1 Thess 3:3-4 : 3 that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set, 4 for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known `it';