Ecclesiastes 2:23

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

For all his days are pains, and his task is grief; his heart does not even lie down in the night. Even this also is vanity.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And He said to the man, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it, the ground shall be cursed because of you; you shall eat of it in pain all the days of your life.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my camps are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their camps.

Esther 6:1

On that night the king’s sleep fled, and he said to bring in the Book of the Records of the Matter of the Days. And they were being read before the king.

Job 14:1

Man born of woman is short of days and full of turmoil.

Job 5:7

for man is born to trouble, and the sons of the flame rise, flying upward.

Psalm 127:2

Being early to rise is in vain for you, being late to sit up to eat the bread of toils is vain; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

Psalm 32:4

For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Psalm 90:15

Make us glad according to the days of our affliction, the years in which we have seen evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all which is done under the heavens. It is an evil task God has given to the sons of men, to be afflicted by it.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases pain.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I faced on all my works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do. And, behold, all is vanity and striving after wind, and there is no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of the laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much. But the sated lust of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Also all his days he eats in darkness, and with much grief, and with his sickness and wrath.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the task that is done on the earth; for even by day and by night he does not see sleep in his eyes.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and diversions were not brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

Acts 14:22

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