Ecclesiastes 2:23

American Standard Version 2015

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

Cross References

Job 14:1

Man, that is born of a woman,\par\tab Is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 5:7

But man is born unto trouble,\par\tab As the sparks fly upward.\par

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early,\par\tab To take rest late,\par\tab To eat the bread of toil;\par\tab {\i For} so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

Acts 14:22

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.\par

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.\par

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.\par

Psalm 90:15

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,\par\tab And the years wherein we have seen evil.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me:\par\tab My moisture was changed {\i as} with the drought of summer. {\i Selah\par

Esther 6:1

On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Genesis 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 sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.\par

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.\par

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),