Ecclesiastes 2:23

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For all his days pains, and vexation, his labor; also in the night his heart rested not Also this it is vanity.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.

Esther 6:1

In that night the king's sleep fled away, and he will say to bring in the book of memorials of the words of the days; and they will be read before the king.

Job 14:1

Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet

Job 5:7

For man shall be born to labor as the sons of the flame will lift up to fly.

Psalm 127:2

In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.

Psalm 90:15

We rejoiced according to the days thou didst humble us, the years we saw evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to seek and to search out in wisdom concerning all which was done under the heavens: this evil business God gave to the sons of man to be occupied in it

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in abundance of wisdom, abundance of trouble: and he adding knowledge will increase pain.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of the servant is sweet, if little, or if much he shall eat: and the satiety to the rich not permitting to him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Also all his days in darkness shall he eat, and much vexation and his sickness and his anger.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

According as I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the labor that was done upon the earth: for also in the day and in the night he saw not sleep with his eyes.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king departed to his temple and passed the night fasting: and he brought not his concubines before him, and his sleep fled from him.

Acts 14:22

And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.