Hating Life

Et odivi vitam, quia malum super me opus quod factum est sub sole, quia omnia vanitas et pastio venti Si mundus in maligno positus est, et in tabernaculo isto Apostolus ingemiscit dicens, Miser ego homo, quis me liberabit de corpore morti hujus, recte odio habe omne quod sub sole factum est. Ad comparationem quippe paradisi et illius vitae beatitudinem, in qua spiritualibus pomis et virtutum deliciis fruebamur: nunc quasi in ergastulo et carcere sumus et valle lacrymarum, in sudor vultus nostri comedentes panem Sanctus Hieronymous, Commentarius In Ecclesiasten, Caput II Source: Migne PL 23.1031b

And I hated life, because what was done beneath the sun weighed on me as an evil, since it was all a vanity and a feeding of the wind. 1 If 'the world is in wickedness set,' 2 and the Apostle groans in this tabernacle, saying, 'I am a wretched man, who shall free me from this body of death,' 3 rightly he has hate for everything that is done beneath the sun. Certainly compared to paradise and the blessed life, in which we shall feast on spiritual fruits and the delights of the virtues, we are now as if in a workhouse and a prison and in a valley of tears, and in the sweat of our faces we eat our bread. 4 Saint Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 2 1 Eccl 2.17 Vetus Latina 2 1 Jn 5.1 3 Rom 7.24 4 Gen 3.19