Ecclesiastes 2:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

Esther 6:1

That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,

Job 14:1

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Job 5:7

But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

Psalm 127:2

It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

Psalm 32:4

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. Selah.

Psalm 90:15

Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night,

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.

Acts 14:22

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.