Ecclesiastes 8:16

American Standard Version 2015

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),

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:23

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

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.

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.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: {\i there is} a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned about, and my heart {\i was set} to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason {\i of things}, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

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 4:8

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, {\i saith he}, do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Genesis 31:40

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.