For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in grief?

and would be very joyful if they should gain it?

Let the Lord begin to wound me, but let Him not utterly destroy me.

Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon Him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of the sons of Heth; if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of this land, where then should I live?

And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take my life from me, I pray, for I am no better than my fathers.

And now, Lord God, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Is not the time of my life short? Allow me to rest a little,

Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, [though] as a hireling.

Remove Your scourge from me; I have fainted by reason of the strength of Your hand.

Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.

But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike, [formed] out of vanity.

And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety.

Man is likened unto vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

For there are many things which increase vanity. What advantage has a man?

For who knows [what is] good for a man in his life, [during] the number of the life of the days of his vanity? And he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?