Ecclesiastes 2:23 - The Scriptures 2009

For all his days are sufferings, and his work grievous; even in the night his heart takes no rest. That too is futile.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For all his days are but pain and sorrow, and his work is a vexation and grief; his mind takes no rest even at night. This is also vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)!

American Standard Version (1901)

For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

Common English Bible

All their days are pain, and their work is aggravation; even at night, their hearts don’t find rest. This too is pointless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

All his days have been filled with sorrows and hardships; neither does he rest his mind, even in the night. And is this not emptiness?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?

Ecclesiastes 2:23 Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to the man He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘Do not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground because of you, in toil you are to eat of it all the days of your life,

Genesis 47:9

And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

Esther 6:1

On that night the sleep of the sovereign fled, and he commanded to bring the book of the records of the annals. And they were read before the sovereign.

Job 14:1

“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled.

Job 5:7

for man is born for trouble, and the sparks fly upward.

Psalm 127:2

In vain do you rise up early, To sit up late, to eat the bread of toil; So He gives His beloved sleep.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Psalm 90:15

Give us joy according to The days You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that has been done under the heavens; this evil task Elohim has given to the sons of man, to be humbled by it.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases suffering.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of a labourer whether he eats little or much, but the plenty of the rich does not let him sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days he also eats in darkness, and with much sorrow and sickness and wrath.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,

Daniel 6:18

And the sovereign went to his palace and spent the night fasting. And no entertainment was brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.

Acts 14:22

strengthening the beings of the taught ones, encouraging them to continue in the belief, and that through many pressures we have to enter the reign of Elohim.