TSK · Ecclesiastes 2:17

If thou deale thus with me, kyll me I pray thee, if I haue founde fauour in thy sight, yt I see not my wretchednesse.

Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes?

I can see no remedy, I shall liue no more: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.

Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?

But when I considered all the workes that my handes had wrought, and all the labour that I had taken therin: lo all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde, and nothing of any value vnder the sunne.

Moreouer, I sawe vnder the sunne vngodlynes in the steade of iudgement, & iniquitie in steade of righteousnesse.

The cleare sight of the eye, is better then that the soule shoulde walke after desires of the lust: Howbeit, this is also a vayne thyng, and a disquietnesse of mynde.

Nowe when the spirite lift me vp and tooke me away, I went in bitternesse and furie of my spirite: but the hande of the Lorde vpon me was strong.

And when the sunne rose, God prepared a seruent east winde, and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionas that he fainted: and wished vnto his soule, that he might dye, and saide, It is better for me to dye, then to lyue.

For I am in a strayte betwixt two, hauyng a desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which is much farre better.