Ecclesiastes 2:20 Cross References - ISV

²⁰ So I came to be in despair about everything I had accomplished on earth.

¹⁴ and may God Almighty cause the man to show compassion toward you. May he send all of you back, including your other brother and Benjamin. Now as for me, if I lose my children, I lose them.”

¹¹ My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart’s desires. ¹² They have transformed night into day— ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is about to become dark.’ ¹³ “If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, ¹⁴ if I call out to the Pit, ‘You’re my father!’ or say to the worm, ‘My mother!’ or ‘My sister!’ ¹⁵ where would my hope be? “And speaking of my hope, who would notice it?

⁶ In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them. ⁷ How long, LORD, will I wait expectantly? I have placed my hope in you.

¹⁹ If we have set our hopes on the Messiah in this life only, we deserve more pity than any other people.

⁸ How God Rescued PaulFor we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about the suffering we experienced in Asia. We were so crushed beyond our ability to endure that we even despaired of living. ⁹ In fact, we felt that we had received a death sentence so we would not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. ¹⁰ He has rescued us from a terrible death, and he will continue to rescue us. Yes, he is the one on whom we have set our hope, and he will rescue us again,

³ so that no one would be shaken by these persecutions, for which you are aware that we were destined. ⁴ In fact, when we were with you, we told you ahead of time that we were going to suffer persecution. And as you know, that is what happened.