Ecclesiastes 2:23

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?

Cross References

Job 14:1

Man, born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Job 5:7

Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.

Psalm 127:2

For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Acts 14:22

And when they had ordained to them priests in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

Because In much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.

Psalm 90:15

He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

Psalm 32:4

For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with faithfulness.

Genesis 47:9

He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil. And they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes.