7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Hope
• Suffering and Perseverance

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Eccl 2:17 — Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
• Eccl 2:23 — For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
• Eccl 2:23 — For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
• Eccl 3:18 — I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
• Eccl 6:10 — That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
• Gen 3:17 — And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sak
• Gen 47:9 — And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the
• Gen 47:9 — And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the
• Jas 4:14 — Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
• Jer 20:18 — Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
• Job 5:7 — Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
• Job 5:7 — Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
• Job 7:1 — Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
• Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
• Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
• Job 10:20 — Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
• Job 15:14 — What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 25:4 — How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Luke 12:19 — And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
• Matt 11:11 — Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
• Matt 11:11 — Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
• Matt 11:28 — Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
• Ps 39:5 — Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
• Ps 39:5 — Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
• Ps 51:5 — Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
• Ps 89:47 — Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
• Ps 103:15 — As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.